Article December 2, 2019 Issue

Place, purpose, and opportunity for all

Charlene Anne Miller

My career got off to a rocky start. When I graduated from college, a recession and a tight job market meant hundreds of applicants vying for each opening. At a temp agency, a recruiter mocked me for having wasted my time studying the humanities. She gleefully predicted that my peers who had started working after high school graduation would always outearn and outpace me. Yet as I sat there, a spiritual intuition told me I didn’t have to accept her dire prediction about my prospects for a successful career.

I thought back to the perspective I had gained while attending Christian Science Sunday School, where I discovered the true nature of God and His spiritual idea, man (the spiritual and true identity of everyone), through studying the Bible along with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Because a spiritual understanding of God, divine Truth, frees us from limitations, restrictions, and mere human opinions, I wasn’t doomed to a series of dead-end jobs before I had even begun.

Right away I applied this truth to my immediate need for meaningful employment. God, divine Love, who is infinitely loving to all, has only good in store for His children, including a joyous, progressive, fulfilling life. Jesus’ gracious promise to each of us is, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). The unkind prediction that my studies hadn’t prepared me for a suitable career was based on a material view of things, which is inherently limited. I rejected this opinion outright and took the higher, spiritual view of an infinitely abundant, blessed life unfolding under God’s government.

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