After a move to a different part of the country, I was praying one day to see how I could best contribute to my new community. It was a pure, loving desire to share the wonderful spiritual truths that were filling me with so much joy. I sincerely wanted to serve others beyond my family circle, but as a homemaker and mother I felt the opportunities were limited.
As I prayed, the telephone rang. It was the clerk of my branch church. There was a need for someone to fill the office of librarian for our local Christian Science Reading Room. Had I not been praying, I might have declined. But my afternoon of prayer and study, with the resultant inspiration and assurance that my right desire would be fulfilled, encouraged me to accept.
Working for church develops in us those hidden talents we all have for expressing love for God and love for others. We grow with every assignment. Church activity is an excellent arena for learning the lessons that help us to be better healers of the ills of mankind.
