Young people in school or college are frequently confronted with the questions: What shall I do when my school days are over? What shall I do for a living? At the present time, thousands of them, temporarily busy in the armed services 'of their country, are wondering if they will find employment when they are returned to civilian life, and if the employment they secure will be to their liking and will absorb their interest and demand the best they have to give. If they listen to the prognostications of mortal mind regarding the maladjustments incidental to reconversion to peacetime pursuits, they may find their fears increasing, and the prospect discouraging.
But what says Christian Science? Is man's activity subject to times and seasons, to chance and change? With what comfort and confidence we turn away from these mortal pictures to consider the following statement in "Retrospection and Introspection" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 70): "Each individual must fill his own niche in time and eternity." In time, that is, now, in our present daily human experience, each one of us is to find his own especial work.
It is to be noted, also, that the words indicate our God-given ability to fill the niche acceptably, and the word "must" implies the demand that the task be accepted by each one of us. It is a joy to note that this promise of happifying activity is ours for all eternity. How could it be otherwise, for Christian Science teaches us to know man as God's idea, which means that our activity and usefulness come to us inevitably by reason of our relationship to God.
