Although my life was active with children and a busy husband, I decided to return to college. It was a challenge!
At one point, a two-hour-long test was looming and my professor suggested that we study hard because it would have a lot of weight on our final grades. I studied the notes I had taken during the lectures. I had been trusting, as I listened in class, that God was giving me spiritual intuition to hear the important points, and my notes consisted of these points.
This intuition, I’ve learned through Christian Science, is called spiritual sense. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy says, “Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God” (p. 209). This is an ability we all possess to perceive God and His guidance.
When the day of the test arrived, I felt a bit uneasy, although I had studied diligently. I finished it and looked at the clock—of the allotted two hours, only 15 minutes had elapsed! I wondered if I had failed but didn’t think changing my answers would help.
The words of Mrs. Eddy’s poem comforted me, and shut the door on my fears about failing.
After turning in my test, I walked out of the classroom. My stomach was upset and my steps were shaky, but words from “Mother’s Evening Prayer,” a poem written by Mary Baker Eddy, came to me:
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
(Poems, p. 4)
These words comforted me, and shut the door on my fears about failing.
The following week, when the professor reported the test results, he stated that out of the four sections of the class, only once had a student scored 100 percent on a test, and that student was me! I had gotten every answer right on my test and was so grateful. This experience showed me that God was always with me—throughout college and beyond.
