Testimony of Healing April 5, 1975 Issue

The following is an instance when I turned to God for direction...

William W. Holland

The following is an instance when I turned to God for direction and endeavored to let go of human will.

I'd had enough. I had been waiting all morning in the noisy corridor of a graduate school building to interview for a place in the school's teacher education program. Due to my own oversight, however, I had failed to confirm the exact date of my trip, and the administrator I had driven five hours to talk with was out of the office. Hour of return: unknown.

But more than creating disappointment, the wait had exposed some lurking uncertainties. "Did I really feel this was where I belonged? Why was I interested in teaching in the first place? Because I couldn't think of anything else to do?" I realized that the confusion and discord of the situation really only mirrored the unsettled nature of my thought. An article in The Herald of Christian Science prompted me to locate a Christian Science Reading Room in a nearby city.

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