Praying for the economy from a business perspective

COMPILED BY ROSALIE E. DUNBAR,

Although the immediate impact of energy prices, rising costs for food, and other challenges to the global economy have quieted down somewhat, individuals around the United States and the world are still coming to grips with the effects of these changes on their lives and businesses. For this article, the Sentinel's news editor contacted people by e-mail and by phone, to learn how they're praying for their businesses and for the global economy.

For many South Africans, the economic conditions currently being dealt with in other parts of the globe seem minor compared with the challenges their country is facing. Jopie van Hon-schooten, a banker in Johannesburg, says: "The ranks of unemployed, homeless, and hungry people are swelling. At every major intersection in town, men, women, and children are begging—and there is no obvious solution."

Seeking an inspired approach to these problems, he writes that he turned to Science and Health and found a way to see things in a more spiritual light, through this question posed by Mary Baker Eddy: "What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? ... The world is holding it before your gaze continually" (p. 248).

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