The day after the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church last June turned out to be for me “big with blessings” (Science and Health, p. vii). Like many Americans, this past year has been fraught with financial challenges for me too. Frankly, it’s been pretty scary at times.
Where I live in southeast Idaho, there is no Christian Science church. So I enjoy attending church via webcasts from The Mother Church, and as I have for several years, I participated this year in the Annual Meeting live webcast. Given my financial circumstances, I appreciated Treasurer Ned Odegaard’s remarks concerning money—that if money is the Number One topic in conversation, it is almost never favorable. I enjoyed the definition of prosperity shared by Second Reader Marian English—to thrive, to grow, to increase. And what really resonated with me were Michael Pabst’s observations about change. He said that we should not be fearful of change, nor should we be fearful of no change. He summed it up by saying, in essence, that change should be the effect of spiritual growth—not a “savior.”
I realized that for some time I had been seeking change as a “savior” from my financial difficulties. I obsessed that I needed a new, better paying job; needed to move; needed to sell things; needed change.
