Article December 20, 1941 Issue

Spiritual Guidance in Choosing a Vocation

[Written Especially for Young People]

NATALIE G. FORCE

FINDING oneself in the wrong niche has often resulted in failure and unhappiness. In the complexities of the modern world, young people find it difficult sometimes to determine the right direction in which to develop their abilities. For this reason schools and other agencies devote attention to the subject of vocational guidance. The Christian Scientist will sometimes avail himself of the use of these intelligent efforts to help him, but in this, as in all human affairs, his primary concern should be to lift his thought to the realm of infinite Mind, and from this basis work out the solution of his problem.

God knows nothing of the false mortal sense of life in matter. Business cycles, the inconsistencies of overproduction and lack, selfish exploitation, and class conflicts — all these exist only in human belief. God's plan for His spiritual creation is wise and beneficent, and He knows no opposing power. In the universe of Mind all ideas are governed in perfect harmony.

Our work is to know the spiritual facts which have been established throughout all eternity. Man is not a finite being, subject to the beliefs of immaturity and age, chance and change. Man is the perfect and complete expression of Mind, living now and forever at the standpoint of spiritual activity and opportunity, the continuous recipient of God's good and perfect gifts. Through Christian Science there is revealed to us His perfectly ordered universe, and as we align our thinking with the spiritual facts of being we find these truths manifested in our human affairs.

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