Article December 15, 1980 Issue

Supply—once and for all?

JACQUELINE HERITEAU HUNTER

Supply is Love made manifest.

I'd heard this since I first began the study of Christian Science. But as a free-lance writer with a family to support, I'd lived a boom-bust cycle financially: riding high, I knew supply was God's love; swinging low, I wondered where God was going to find more. I told myself supply was everywhere, but I often felt desperate about the rent. What I wanted more than anything in the world, it seemed, was a way to demonstrate supply once and for all.

Recently, during a "bust" spell, I found I had trouble getting through the Bible Lesson.^{In the Christian Science Quarterly;} An experienced Christian Scientist to whom I complained said, "Oh, don't let that happen. The lesson is filled with ideas. Those ideas are your supply for the day." A week later, the lesson included two Bible references I felt were particularly relevant to supply: "I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert" ^{Isa. 43:19;} and "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground."^44:3;