It was the end of May, and Cam still didn't have a job. "It's not my fault," he thought. "I've tried."

The previous summer he had worked at an Audubon camp, and he'd become a nature-study expert. He even had a certificate to prove it. During the holiday break, he thought he had landed a nice camp counselor job for the summer, but a last-minute change in camp management had suddenly left him jobless. All the other camp jobs had been snapped up long ago. He couldn't get another kind of job because he didn't have a way to get to and from work.

"It's hopeless, Mom!" Cam said. "I can't buy a car unless I have a job to earn the money. And I can't get a job unless I have a car."

His mom tried to encourage him. "Cam, you know the importance of expecting good, even when things seem hopeless. The Bible tells us that all things are possible to God" (see Mark 14:36). Cam frowned.

Mom picked up the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. She read these words, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts" (p. 261).

"I'll try to expect good," Cam said.

Together they decided to do some more praying. Their prayer was not begging God to give them something. It was an opening of thought to the fact that He has already given His offspring everything that is needed, abundantly.

Deep down inside, Cam knew that nothing is ever really hopeless. He had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School that man is spiritual, God's reflection. Our real purpose, or job, is to express God. As Cam thought about this, his gloom began to lift.

He realized that since God is divine Mind, His creation, man, must express intelligence, wisdom, and good judgment. Since God is Truth, man expresses integrity. In the Bible, John's epistle tells us that God is Love, so each one of us as His child must truly be loving, kind, generous. Cam saw this was true for him right then. He decided that he was capable of being a very desirable employee!

In the Lord's Prayer, Christ Jesus gave us these words: "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10). Cam realized that up to this point his prayers had been full of mental reservations. He had been telling God there were certain places he wouldn't go and certain things he wouldn't do. That was certainly not letting God's will be done!

"From now on," Cam decided, "I'll stop doubting and know that since God's will is good, I can expect good and see it." Remembering how Jesus had washed the disciples' feet at the last supper just before his crucifixion, Cam decided he could be ready to accept any job that was offered.

Suddenly the thought came to him to check the jobs listed at a state employment agency in the next town. He asked his mother if he could borrow her car, and he drove over. As he went, he kept on praying.

There was a job available. It turned out to be a very menial job, but it was only a short distance from his home. He was hired as the handyman at a boy's day camp. It was a small camp where boys were tutored in subjects they had failed in school the year before. Cam spent the first day washing windows and helping his boss get things ready for the opening the following week. Cam mentioned, as he and his new boss worked together, that he had a certificate from an Audubon camp. He was promptly promoted to camp counselor. Cam kept that job every summer for the next three years, and the boys, the boss, and he were very happy with the arrangement.