In 1976, when I became acquainted with Christian Science, I was working in a hospital, in which I had direct and practically constant dealings with patients. As I began studying the weekly Bible Lessons found in the Christian Science Quarterly, I started to feel uncomfortable in my job. I prayed to God to know what to do and patiently persisted in this. Then I had an occasion to talk about this situation with a student of Christian Science, who helped me see how important it is to let the leadings of divine Mind place us. This helped me enormously.
After about two years of persisting in my desire and prayer, proof of what the Bible says appeared (James 1:4): "Let patience have her perfect work."Without my doing anything humanly, one day I was faced with a situation at work that made me cry out to God for help from the bottom of my heart. Within five minutes I was telephoned by a supervisor in an administration office that belonged to the same institution but that functioned separately. He asked me if I would like to work there. I was told that the director of the hospital had already agreed to this change, and so I accepted the offer joyfully. How grateful I was to my beloved Father-Mother God!
Prior to the phone call, I had not submitted any documents requesting a job change, as is usual and virtually necessary in changing position and office, nor had I asked others in the hospital to help me work out a job change. Afterward, in spite of some strong opposition from other quarters to my taking up the new post, I persisted in prayer and found support in the following statements: "Fear thou not; for I am with thee" (Isa. 41:10); "The battle is the Lord's" (I Sam. 17:47); and "Thy hand in all things I behold" (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 134). Also, this sentence from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy helped me (p. 1): "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds."
