As I Closed The Door on my marriage, I knew that I wanted to start completely over, to begin a totally new life. My husband and I had built a successful business together, but I felt my new life should also include new employment. I had just begun studying Christian Science, and I decided I could trust God to lead me in the right direction.

I was taking nothing along from my former life in the way of savings, income, or personal possessions. But I knew intuitively that each of us has a mission in life—and that I could view my changed circumstances as an opportunity for progress. I found the ideas in Science and Health to be so new and original that I would spend hours studying it, along with the Bible and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy. Instead of analyzing my prospects for employment based on my work experience, training, or education, I decided to pray each day for guidance on how to best express my understanding of what I considered to be God.

During this time, I never really doubted that God was leading me—and that everything I needed would be provided. As a result, I did something that I think was so original! As I'd go through the job ads in the newspaper, I'd say, "Now God, just point me in the right direction. Even if I don't have experience or training—if You're leading me—You'll give me everything I need to accomplish my mission." I was learning that I could trust my intuition—spiritual intuition. Mary Baker Eddy once noted that when intuition comes from God, it " ... guides you safely home" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 152).

I knew that if I trusted this spiritual sense, no matter how my next job turned out, it would be a fulfillment of my mission as God directed it—whatever that mission was. So, if I had some sort of intuition about a job prospect, I would check it out. I applied for all kinds of jobs for which I didn't even have experience or training. I went on all kinds of interviews. And the funny thing was, in the course of so many interviews, I'd find that the real purpose of my being there was that the person needed something I could share with them. Sometimes I needed to hear something from them. There was always something very special to share with each other. I began to find that I wasn't looking for a job—I was looking for a way that I could be of use to God.

This wasn't a waste of time. The process of interviewing was really wonderful. I learned so many things because I was really looking for God in my experience.

One day I found a want-ad from a hotel. The new owners wanted to convert an older hotel for convention business. They needed someone to do a research project for them. It seemed so exciting! I called and said, "I think I would be just perfect for this job." The woman laughed, and she said, "Well, if you think you'd be just perfect, you'd better come in and interview."

When I got to the hotel, the new directors were meeting. The president invited me into the board meeting. Maybe they just wanted to see who this woman was who thought she would be "just perfect" for this job—even though she had no training, education, or experience in the hotel industry. When I went in, they were all laughing and talking very informally. We just talked about my background and what I thought I could bring to this job. At the end of 20 minutes, I had the job. I never filled out an application or turned in a résumé. We arranged that I would work from home for the first few weeks while they got their offices established. It was supposed to be a temporary job.

I had to "pray my way" through learning this job, having never done anything like it before. Often when I was out calling on prospective clients, I would go into the bathroom, or I'd duck into a stairwell—to pray, to listen to God. I prayed every step of the way.

At the end of about four weeks, the hotel offered me a full-time job. After a few months, they upgraded me to sales. Then they made me sales director. Then I became the marketing director. In two years I was managing another hotel in San Antonio, Texas.

Within ten years, the experiences I had working in convention hotels enabled me to establish my own company, managing professional trade associations. My clients were all people I'd met while working in hotels.

But that wasn't the end of my career path. Once again, a whole new life was going to open up for me. During those years of working in convention hotels—as part of a large corporation and later in my own business—I had so many opportunities to continue praying and to see how Christian Science could help me from day to day.

For example, the hotel I managed had 22 meeting rooms, and 6,000 to 8,000 people meeting on a daily basis. That's when I really honed my prayer skills. I had always felt, from the first time I had learned about it, that Christian Science was truly scientific—that the rules were there. We learn to use our lives as experiments in prayer. As we study, we discover new things about God, and the next step always opens up. Solutions become apparent.

While working in convention hotels, I had opportunities to heal everything from people who had experienced heart attacks, to epileptic seizures, to gunshot wounds.

Let me tell you about the gunshot wounds. One night about 10:30 I was still in my office. It had been a tremendously challenging day. I was reading Science and Health, trying to work up the energy to go home. For some reason, I just couldn't seem to leave. Then I got a telephone call from the front desk saying that a man had been shot in front of the hotel during a robbery. He was lying unconscious and bleeding on the River Walk.

As I went to the scene, I kept asking God to tell me what I needed to know to be of help. The thought kept coming, "God is his Life. No one can take his life from him because no one can separate him from God." I was so uplifted and joyous. It felt as if a light went on in my thought. I knew this was the Christ coming to me in terms of my own thought.

When I got there, the man was unconscious. There was blood pouring from his head. The blood was everywhere. We wrapped his head in towels. I got down on my knees and kept repeating to him that God was his Life. The bleeding seemed to stop. His eyelids opened ... he was conscious. By the time the ambulance got there, we were praying the Lord's Prayer.

Because it was difficult to maneuver the stretcher up a narrow, winding flight of rock steps from the River Walk to the street level, this wonderful man actually offered to walk, saying, "I think I'm all right now." A television reporter on the scene commented, "That man's got a lot of spirit!" And indeed he did. He was back at his convention the very next day with his head wrapped in bandages.

One of the most wonderful things about being in this constant activity—people coming from all backgrounds, from all walks of life, with almost every sort of problem—was that I really saw that the saying "One with God is a majority" is true. That if just one person is consciously "one with God," then the consciousness of everyone else is improved, is elevated.

About 13 years from the day I showed up at that first hotel, knowing that I'd be "just perfect" for that job, I graduated into yet another whole new career. The wonderfully varied experiences I'd gained working in convention hotels and in my own business paved the way for me to enter the public healing practice of Christian Science. Letting God lead me each step of the way, I've always had everything I needed to live a good life. And most importantly, I saw firsthand how Christian Science operates in individual lives on a daily basis.

Sunny Scott-Luther and her husband, John, live in Austin, Texas.