What intelligence really looks like

Originally appeared online in the teen series: Your Healings - February 16, 2021. 

I was in the last semester of my senior year in college, taking a final exam for a math course. The class was for my major, so I was required to do well in it. But I’d been struggling all semester.

I’d been praying about the class the way I’d learned to in the Christian Science Sunday School—trying to understand more about God as the one, infinite, all-intelligent Mind and about myself as the expression of that supreme intelligence. Well, I was about to see the fruition of those prayers in a very unusual way.

All the students were in one room, taking the exam on the honor system, while the professor was in his office. The exam consisted of just a few problems. But each had several parts, and it was important to tackle them all. One of the problems stumped me completely. 

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