Many years ago, after completing one phase of my doctoral studies, I determined that it would be necessary to find employment to earn the income needed to sustain a lengthy period of dissertation research.
Having no clear idea what I wanted to do, I began a job search that was, to say the least, desultory. Without enthusiasm and without success, I applied to various organizations until, one day, it occurred to me that I was going about the process in exactly the wrong way. I realized that, as a Christian Scientist, I could change the whole basis of the search. Instead of asking, “Who will have me?” I realized I should be asking, “What do I have to give?” Suddenly I felt confident that God would match my talents with just the right opportunity.
I was living in Washington, DC, at the time and at once thought of a significant treaty, regarding a matter with which I was well familiar, that was on the verge of consideration in the United States Senate. But how to find a place for myself in the ratification process was not clear.
