Prayer leads to employment and restores hearing

Robert L. Mugg

I had obtained a high-school-level teaching credential, and for about a year and a half following my graduation from college I tried to find a teaching position. Although I'd had problems with discipline while teaching, the thought of doing anything else did not occur to me.

No power could keep me from being where God wanted me to be.

But I was not listening to what God, divine Mind, had in store for me. I needed to open my thought to God's direction. Science and Health urges, "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death" (p. 242). I had to learn not to be willful, but to let divine Mind guide me. I was also having difficulty hearing at this time. I learned to read lips, however, and was able to get by without most people being aware of the problem.

For the first time I really started to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and to read the periodicals. I also had treatment from a Christian Science practitioner for these two problems. I learned that no power could keep me from being where God wanted me to be. I also studied what Mary Baker Eddy has to say about ears and hearing in Science and Health. At one point she writes: "The 'divine ear' is not an auditory nerve. It is the all-hearing and all-knowing Mind, to whom each need of man is always known and by whom it will be supplied" (p. 7). I had to learn to listen for God's direction.

After a year and a half of looking for a teaching job, I had covered the entire state of California and found nothing. When the last possibility fell through I said, "That is it. No more trying for a teaching position."

I continued to pray, however, to know that I would be guided to my right place, and I was led to answer an advertisement in the local newspaper. This eventually led to a position at a bank, where I worked happily for over twenty-three years.

A few weeks after I started working at the bank, large quantities of wax began draining from my ears, especially during the night. This was before computers and electronic banking, and I worked in a room that was full of calculators and other noisy machines. One morning I heard a popping sound, and the noise from these machines was suddenly very evident. I was completely healed of the hearing difficulty. The noise was extremely loud, but joyous. As I see it, when I found my right place, there was no longer an obstruction in my thinking, and the material obstacle that had been interfering with my hearing dissolved on its own.

It has been almost forty years since this healing, and it has been permanent. I am most grateful for this healing and for membership in The Mother Church, as well as for class instruction, which followed shortly after this healing. My gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for this Science is unbounded. I am also very grateful for membership in a branch church, where it has been my privilege to serve in many ways.

Robert L. Mugg
Menlo Park, California

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