Testimony of Healing August 3, 1987 Issue

In a discussion pertaining to job opportunities, someone recently...

Phyllis Perron West

In a discussion pertaining to job opportunities, someone recently said to me, "I think it's not what you know, it's who you know." Hearing his comment brought to mind my first job search many years ago.

Upon graduation from dress design school, I found that job openings for beginners in that field were just about nonexistent. After I had made a long, discouraging search, my mother, a dedicated Christian Scientist, asked if I had thought about turning to God for direction. I told her I didn't know how God could help me find a job. She reminded me that as God's child, I was His pure expression, reflecting His qualities. She pointed out that any creativity I expressed was derived from God, divine Mind, and was not something of my own making. As Christ Jesus said (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing."

My mother suggested I pray about the situation and trust that God governs all true activity. Because I ordinarily planned everything well in advance down to the last detail, this suggestion to pray and trust God was a challenge to me at first. But as a student in the Christian Science Sunday School, I turned for inspiration to the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, as well as to the hymns in the Christian Science Hymnal. The following excerpt from Proverbs was so helpful (3:5, 6): "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." I also gained inspiration from a hymn with words by Mrs. Eddy (Hymnal, No. 304) that begins,

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