Panicking at exam time?
It was finals season. My grad school professor had given us five questions we could use to prepare, explaining that we would be asked to write on two of them during the exam. But there was a problem: None of the questions appeared to relate to the material I’d read or the discussions we’d had in class. It seemed like the questions belonged to another class entirely! I felt stymied and helpless.
But one thing I did have was what I’d been learning in Christian Science, so that’s where I turned. One of my big take-aways from Sunday School had been the synonyms for God that Mary Baker Eddy identifies in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
One of these names for God is Mind, and during my undergraduate years I had made a habit of recognizing that God is Mind—the only Mind, omnipresent Mind—and that I reflect Mind. This meant that I couldn’t be cut off from the ideas that Mind includes; Mind was always giving me the ideas I needed.
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