Article November 25, 1985 Issue

A fair exchange

CONSTANCE L. BENAC

We were newly married, young, and jobless. We had arrived in a small city in northern New York State in search of employment. My husband and I were radio broadcasters and writers. Just a few weeks after our wedding, the midwestern broadcasting station where we worked went under, leaving us rootless. We made the journey east by train and took temporary refuge with my husband's people. Then we heard about an opening at a station about one hundred miles north and used our last dollars to buy bus tickets.

I vividly remember sitting in the ladies' lounge of a department store while my husband visited the station to inquire about the opening. I prayed. In the Christian Science Bible Lesson for that week^{In the Christian Science Quarterly.} there were two references that gave me inspiration and hope.

One was the Biblical account of the woman of Zarephath visited by Elijah. He asked for a piece of bread. She said she had only a handful of meal and a little oil to feed herself and her son. The outcome of her encounter with Elijah was that by her sharing it with him, all three were sustained for many days. As the Bible says, "The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail."^{I Kings 17:16.}

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