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Prayer helps resolve business issue
Several years after finding Christian Science, I opened an antique and handmade gifts store. At first everything went well and it flourished. Then a series of unfortunate events changed everything, and I found myself many months behind in both my rent and car payments.
I was devastated; I had never experienced anything like that before. I had to handle feelings of guilt that I had opened this business with very little money, with no financial cushion, and no formal business experience or business education.
However, at the time, opening the business had felt right and I had proceeded in faith. Finding the store’s location had been such a blessing, and everything leading to the opening had fallen into place so perfectly. I also knew that as infinite Mind’s reflection I always had the God-given ability to express divine intelligence. In fact, my lack of human knowledge regarding business couldn’t prevent me from reflecting wisdom since “God is intelligence” as Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 2). Also from this book was this reassuring statement: “Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmonious and eternal” (p. 184). The guilt lifted, but I still felt very frightened and alone without any idea of how to resolve things.
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