Article February 5, 1979 Issue

Where job opportunities thrive

HELEN T. RIESENBERG

For whatever reason or no apparent reason, you find yourself moved out of a position of usefulness. You have seen it happen to others; you know about it as a societal problem; now, it appears, it's your turn. In such a situation the understanding of Christian Science can help bring purpose, activity, reward, into view.

Christian Science demonstrates that without a sustaining mental environment an inharmonious situation cannot persist; conversely, the consciousness of spiritual reality supports the development of good in human experience. Mrs. Eddy explains, "When we learn in Science how to perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect, thought is turned into new and healthy channels,—towards the contemplation of things immortal and away from materiality to the Principle of the universe, including harmonious man."^{Science and Health, p. 276;}

The habitat of an employment difficulty is a mentally held version of the universe as limited—as a place of scarce resources, contending human beings, imperfect communications, personal power. What's the remedy? Neither anger, self-justification, nor resigned passivity will restore the displaced worker to secure employment and self-worth. As long as we remain within the precincts of a material misconception of reality, focusing on management or the economy, on our weaknesses or those of others, we are liable to fail and to be frustrated.

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