You need work. But you’re having a tough time finding any in this tight economy.

Maybe you recently graduated from college and seek clarity about your career path, but you live with your parents while you try to land a job—any job (or you head to graduate school for a few years). Or maybe you’ve enjoyed a fruitful career, but now you feel irrelevant and lost. Doors appear closed to you because of a perfect storm of company cutbacks, your résumé, and your age. Or maybe you don’t have a required degree to take on a particular job.

Wherever you find yourself along life’s trajectory, you might well face anxiety and even despair as you try to bring your identity into focus and size up your prospects for income and work.

But don’t lose hope. All unemployed and underemployed people can face this adversity successfully because we all have a spiritual “Career Counselor”—God—to whom we can turn for help.

We can trust divine Love to open doors of opportunity.

As the Bible reassures, “God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof” (Job 28:23). Echoing through the ages comes the reassurance that God will surely create an opening and nudge us or catapult us in the right direction, as well as inspire, support, and prosper others who could benefit from our skills.

We can trust divine Love to open doors of opportunity. Trust divine Spirit to motivate us, guide us, and power us forward. Trust immortal Mind to create expansion of industry for one and all. And we can trust the influence of Soul to infiltrate the human economy and restore it to health.

With this deep trust comes a wellspring of peace. We feel turmoil and fear lift. We feel the tender authority of divine Principle mercifully arranging our interconnected lives, as the steady currents of Life’s power and presence carry us and everyone else to a good place.

Mary Baker Eddy, who met tough challenges in her own life, learned firsthand that we can trust God. She saw how God can meet all human needs, including the need for work, money, and worthy purpose. She said: “Now this self-same God is our helper. He pities us. He has mercy upon us, and guides every event of our careers” (Unity of Good, pp. 3–4).

Consider this: Maybe it isn’t enough simply to pray for oneself so the tide will turn for you. Maybe good-Samaritan prayer is called for, reaching out to lend a helping metaphysical hand to our neighbors. “A rising tide lifts all boats,” as President John F. Kennedy said. The rising tide of our scientifically sound prayer can lift not only our own career-and-job boat, but also help do the same for others. In fact, such selfless prayer on behalf of all of humanity may well be essential to finding our own sure path to progress.

How to pray? Countless ways. But all effective prayer taps into spiritual Truth. Prayer involves acknowledging and feeling God’s active, sustaining presence, as well as giving up a false, personal sense of ego, and instead accepting our own spiritual nature as the expression of the one, universal Ego. Prayer affirms the reality of Mind’s ever-active power along with Love’s sure provision of every human need. Prayer springs from a deep spiritual confidence that “surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life” (Ps. 23: 6).

So count on prayer to bring freedom—from fear and confusion, from unemployment and any other form of lack.

Turn to your divine Career Counselor to guide you. As Proverbs counsels: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (3:5, 6).

Hear the divine whisper, “I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it” (Rev. 3:8). Nothing—no apparent adversity of any kind—can shut the door to anyone’s or any community’s or any nation’s opportunity for growth and development, selfless service, and fruition of God-bestowed gifts.

Together, we can hold to this truth.

And expect tangible proof.