Article March 4, 2013 Issue

Getting a job in the kingdom

Marjorie Kehe

Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants.
Then all your other needs will be met as well.

—Matthew 6:33, New Century Version

The summer I was 15, I decided I wanted a “mother’s helper job.” Many of the girls at my school got these jobs, working as live-in help for wealthy New York families on vacation. It seemed a chance to do something interesting and perhaps glamorous for the summer. So we all applied, and one by one, my friends got job offers. But I didn’t.