Though we may not at the moment be going through the experience of looking for satisfactory employment, we all at some time have this problem to solve, whether we be rich or poor, employed by another or the master of our own activities. True employment is the reflecting of Mind in spiritual activity. In working to find rightful human employment, we need to fill our thought with the spiritual concept of employment and maintain steadfastly the realization of the facts of spiritual activity, and we shall then find that the human situation is being solved in proportion to our understanding of divine Principle. This is not an impractical or merely theoretical manner of solving the problem, but the only true way to demonstrate right activity of any kind.
The writer can remember one time in her experience when she was perplexed as to what course to follow in regard to accepting a position which had been offered to her. Her thoughts seemed to be in a turmoil of indecision. In her need for guidance, she turned to a friend who was a faithful Christian Scientist. Her disappointment was keen when the friend refused to talk over the human situation, but instead insisted on making scientific statements of spiritual facts, with no apparent reference whatsoever to the human situation about which the writer was disturbed.
Because this line of reasoning was taken, there was no possibility of argument or of human sympathy, and so the writer soon left her friend, feeling even more uncertain as to what to do next. However, even as she turned away, feeling a little resentful and quite alone in working out the problem, she realized how right the friend had been to turn thought to Principle and to the facts of spiritual existence, keeping his own thinking above the confusion of material thinking, and dwelling without interruption in the realm of spiritual realities, where the arguments of mortal mind could not confuse or disturb his vision of the true facts. From the moment of recognizing her friend's wisdom, the writer's indecision, her longing for human advice and guidance, ceased, and she turned humbly to the truths of Christian Science which had been stated firmly and convincingly. The healing was immediate and the problem was solved.
