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Understanding spiritual abundance brings needed employment

From the January 1999 issue of The Christian Science Journal


At the beginning of the year before last, I was starting out afresh. I had recently graduated from college and returned to my home country. I had to find employment and a permanent place to live. As I had always done in the past, I turned wholly to God. Only this time I leaned on God's love with new humility and the trust of a child. In addition to my usual study of the Lesson-Sermon, I used the period of unemployment to begin an in-depth study of Science and Health, and at the same time I also read any other Christian Science literature that I could get my hands on. Every day was filled with spiritual growth.

The time came to return to the United Kingdom for my annual Christian Science Students Association meeting. I still had not found a suitable job, and I needed money for a plane ticket. I felt certain that I would be at the meeting, even though at that point I had no idea how I would purchase the ticket, so I made a reservation on a flight. I knew that because God is All, He is the constant source of supply through His abundance of good ideas and intuitions constantly imparted to man. I also prayed with the ideas in the whole twenty third Psalm, applying the truth I found in every line to my situation. When I had to pay for the ticket, I had all the money I needed. And within a week of my return after the meeting, I had found a job.

What I had been through that year gave me a higher understanding of myself and of my fellowman as spiritually complete, as God's reflection. The idea of reflection had become clear to me one night as I was studying. I am an artist, and on the wall by my bed is a self-portrait. As I looked at it that night, I remembered how I'd had to study my reflection in the mirror in order to paint the portrait. I suddenly understood what it meant to be God's reflection. It means that I am not, cannot be, anything that God is not. The reflection is everything that the original is, and nothing more or nothing less, either. This was a pretty awe-inspiring revelation!

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