As a young woman, I was hired by a large New York City department store to model clothes. I had had no previous experience as a model, but learned much that helped me through the conscientious study of Christian Science.
First, I needed to learn my true identity, and know myself as God knows me. Every morning I studied, along with the weekly Bible Lesson, passages about beauty in Science and Health, including, "The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony" (pp. 247-248). I made these passages a part of my consciousness. I practiced expressing divine Love impartially as I walked among customers in the store. I endeavored to reflect divine Love right where I was, and within a year I found a new position with a designer of women's dresses.
The next step I was required to take, through correct identification of my fellowman, was to destroy my fear of a new boss and of his displeasure with me because he thought my back was too skinny for the evening clothes designed for me to model. I studied earnestly every morning to heal the belief of my having inadequate qualifications for this position. I endeavored to see only the image of Love each time I thought of or saw my employer. I replaced his name in my thought with the words "image of Love." I claimed that I was loving, lovable, and loved as God's idea. And I was healed of my fear of him.
