"What shall I do?" is the troubled query of those at a crossroad of experience where a choice of action seems imperative. Is there a practical way to make the right choice? Yes, through Christian Science teachings one can find neverfailing guidance.
A Christian Science student was at one time faced with the necessity of making an important business decision. The more she considered the human factors, the more difficult it seemed to find the answer. Confused and troubled, she sought guidance in our Leader's writings. The following passage in "The First Church of Christ. Scientist, and Miscellany" (pp. 223, 224) seemed written by Mary Baker Eddy expressly for the situation: "Just now divine Love and wisdom saith, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' Do all Christian Scientists see or understand the importance of that demand at the moment, when human wisdom is inadequate to meet the exigencies of the hour and when they should wait on the logic of events?" How clear were the directions: first, be still; secondly, know; thirdly, wait!
"Be still." Two small, but portentous words! Wisely and directly they instructed her to still fear, worry, doubt, human analyzing, and feverish outlining; to stop trying to make Truth operate, and instead. to reflect it. During a storm at sea, though one may call loudly to another near by, he cannot be heard amid the roar and tumult of the waves and wind. Similarly, while the elements of fear, haste, and human planning are boisterously raging within consciousness, how can it be receptive to the divine message which always comes to the listening heart? "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left," is the promise given in the thirtieth chapter of Isaiah.
