In my own experience there was a long struggle before I was able to claim the harmony that comes when God is allowed to govern and guide. Having planned a teaching career, I was full of resentment when I found I had failed medically for the profession. After a brief struggle I yielded, unwillingly, to the verdict and went into an office, where Christian Science, the gift of gifts, awaited me. I was conscious that I had received a big blessing, but still needed to recognize that in every circumstance I was fulfilling our heavenly Father's plan. Accordingly, for about four years, I found myself constantly facing the question of suitable employment.
The situation reached its climax when I once more found myself unemployed and without money, but this time convinced that my efforts to solve the problem were quite ineffective. Things were so hopeless to my thought that I had no course but to leave all to God. In this state of mind I was reading the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly one morning when a telephone call assured me that another opportunity of service awaited me. Still self-will screamed, and everything in the new position spoke to me of discord and dreariness. Yet, because there seemed no other way out, I decided to telephone to the practitioner who was always so ready to realize the truth for me. When she pointed out the right course, it seemed more than self-pity could bear; but divine Love enabled me to leave self out of the question and accept the position. My every least need was met. I think if I had searched all over London I could not have found a position so suited to my needs as the one I had so nearly rejected. It embodied everything I could possibly have desired or hoped for—gave me time for study, and Christian Science work to do.
Thus divine Love opened up to me the right way; as Mrs. Eddy, our beloved Leader, says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 232), "The right way wins the right of way, even the way of Truth and Love whereby all our debts are paid, mankind blessed, and God glorified."
