Article February 13, 2012 Issue

A perfect employment package

Deepinder Singh

I am a software engineer. In 2009, I left the company I was with to join a new one. Although it had a friendly environment, it turned out that the salary was not what I expected. This was very stressful, and I found it hard to put my best effort into the job. After a few months, a colleague invited me to a Christian Science lecture. Before that, I had never heard about Christian Science. At the lecture I found out that we all are spiritual ideas of God and that Spirit, not matter, is the source of our every supply. 

I felt so inspired by these ideas that I started attending Sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings regularly. I also began to receive prayerful help for my job issue from a Christian Science practitioner. The practitioner told me to read Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and guided me to these lines: “In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all . . . Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply” (p. 206).

Within a short time, I got my first increment in salary and received several after that. But some workers left, and I ended up having to take care of more projects. This increased my workload and stress level. I again asked the Christian Science practitioner to pray for me. He said I should continue praying with the thought that Spirit is the source of supply, not matter. I was so frustrated that I thought of resigning every day. But the practitioner’s prayers helped me keep calm. 

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