I was in a hurry to put our new house in order and wanted to go shopping because my husband and I needed comforters for the twin beds in our guest room. As I rushed across my living room, this message came to me: “You’re not praying.” Since I was standing by the sofa, I sat right down and decided to listen for messages from God. While I prayed, this word kept coming to me: justice. I was surprised by that, but decided to go shopping with the idea of justice in mind.
When I arrived at a store, a young woman assisted me. I explained I needed two blue comforters, and she took me right over to one. She even opened it all the way up so that I could see the whole thing. It was perfect. The only problem was that there was only one left in the store. She offered to call the manufacturer the next day to see if there was another one.
Just as soon as she had said this, a woman hovering by us came over and said, “No, they don’t have that anymore. You don’t need to make that call.” I assumed this was the young woman’s supervisor.
This employee had been so helpful and persistent that I wanted to bring her a gift.
I walked away but found myself staying at the store a while longer looking at some other items, even though I didn’t need anything else. I was wondering what was keeping me there, when someone behind me said, “There’s no justice here.” It was the young girl who had helped me. I prayed to know that justice is here because God is here, and I thought this was a message I could share with her. She said, “My supervisor will not let me do my work here. She interferes.” She added that she would call the manufacturer for me and keep me informed. I thanked her and left the store.
The next morning, I was at home reading the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly when the phone rang. It was the young employee. She had learned that the manufacturer did have another comforter and would send it to the store. I went back to reading, and the next line I read from the Bible was, “I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter” (John 14:16). I had to laugh!
It came to me to bring her the true “Comforter.”
This employee had been so helpful and persistent that I sincerely wanted to bring her a gift when I picked up my order at the store. It came to me to bring her the true “Comforter,” which I understand to be Christian Science. I had been helped so much by the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, that I decided to wrap up a paperback copy of it and give it to her. The young woman happily accepted it.
Several weeks later I was driving by that store and thought I would see how the reading was going. It turned out the young woman hadn’t been able to read it yet because her husband couldn’t put the book down! Something was having an effect, though, because she said, “I have to tell you what happened. Management wants to transfer me to another location. I will be doing a job I was never given the opportunity to do here, that matches my college major.” She was so happy about the upcoming transfer—being able to do what she had been trained to do. I felt this was a beautiful form of justice.
