Q: On what practical basis can we feel confident that if we embark on the public practice of Christian Science, specifically seeking Journal-listing, we will be able to make it financially?
A: There’s no one way to answer this question, but I can speak from my own experience and share ideas that made it possible for me to be a Journal-listed practitioner. Successfully handling financial issues in our family business prior to working full time in the practice helped me realize there’s no difference between a lack of supply and poor health, or discordant relationships, or any other challenge to God’s allness. If God is All, aren’t we the expression of God? Therefore, God is actually expressing us, instead of our trying to express Him. So we are the very evidence of God’s abundance.
“What hast thou in the house?” Elisha asked the poverty-stricken widow (see II Kings 4:1–7). The change in the widow’s focus from what she needed to get, to what she already had to give, led to the discovery of an unlimited supply of oil.
