Over the years Mrs. Eddy's statement "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" has been one with much meaning for me (Science and Health, p. 494). Since both my husband and I are self-employed, we have no set income; it varies from week to week. Those words have been a source of inspiration and comfort—but most important, they've been provable.
Not too long ago I came across a testimony in the Christian Science Sentinel in which a woman wrote that she and her husband had made a grateful decision to give an expected income check to their church. It seemed like a wonderful way for me to express gratitude for the practical religion I had been raised in. At the time I was expecting to receive a sizable check for some work I had just completed. I thought about the line from the Lord's Prayer that I had often studied, "Give us this day our daily bread."
At one time it had seemed redundant to me to use the words day and daily in the same sentence. But I realized it made a very specific point: we did not have to look ahead for "tomorrow's bread" or "next week's bread." Each day we could expect to have enough for that day—"our daily bread." Mrs. Eddy writes: "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for to-morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 307).
