Article December 31, 2018 Issue

No ‘aging out’ of our value

Mark Swinney

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column, April 4, 2018.

A friend of mine who was looking for a job was told time and again by prospective employers that there wasn’t a place for her. Daily she persisted in looking, but after a couple of months she began to suspect that despite her qualifications, she had “aged out” of any workplace opportunities.

At first this discouraged her. Yet she isn’t the kind of person to stay discouraged for long. Over many years she has found value in devoting time each day to learning about divine Spirit, God, and gaining a more spiritual sense of her life. She loves these times of prayer, which are inspired by a heartfelt yearning to know and feel God’s boundless love. And she has experienced the power of that love to bring her triumphantly through illness, lack, and injury. Just thinking about the powerful experiences of healing she has had buoys her up, providing encouragement whenever the going seems to get especially tough.

So when she was faced with this apparent barrier to being as useful as she felt she could be, she continued to let her love for God inspire her. She didn’t ask God to find her a job. Rather, she considered the situation from the spiritual standpoint she’d found so helpful before, which gave her an entirely different perspective. Her prayers acknowledged the idea that everyone is God’s needed, spiritual offspring, and that this truth included her. As like produces like, the creations of the eternal Spirit can never wear out their purpose or dissipate even a little of their worth. Our strength and value always remain.

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