Testimony of Healing December 16, 2013 Issue

Employment found, wrist healed

Carole Westman-Dadurka

A few years ago, after teaching school part time, I found it necessary to get full-time employment. The principal at the school where I was employed said he would have a second-grade class opening the following year, and that I could have the position. It would first be necessary, however, to go through the application and interview process since I didn’t have a regular, full-time, contract with the school district.

The interview process was far from what I expected and I regretted not having prepared with prayer. There were hundreds of applicants like myself circulating from table to table in a large room where district personnel and principals fired questions at applicants. (The principal at my school was not part of this group.) A week later, a rejection letter arrived. I was devastated, and also upset at what I perceived as a betrayal by the principal. I was further concerned since it was the end of June, and in May I’d declined my part-time contract.

I called a Christian Science practitioner who lovingly assured me that since God is Love, He sees each of His ideas in a place that provides fulfillment and blessings. For the next two months, the practitioner and I talked almost every day. He patiently reminded me that the spiritual qualities I included naturally made it possible to find work that was right for me because God, Love, knows His ideas as harmoniously active and rightly related. The practitioner gently encouraged me to drop the resentment I felt for the principal as this was no part of what I express as God’s child. I knew this was an important step for progress. I needed to see only divine Love as governing and be obedient to the Ten Commandments, especially, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” (Exodus 20:16). I realized that feeling angry at the principal was bearing false witness—not accepting that he was God’s child, not seeing my fellow man in his true light as Christ Jesus urged us to do.

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