There I was, sitting in an office with two managers telling me I was being let go. I had worked at the company for over five years—but was released within five minutes. The lead manager asked if I had any questions. What came out of my mouth surprised me: “No, but I have faith.”

As I walked home, I thought about what I had just said. Did I really have enough faith to completely trust God’s direction of my career? Did I truly believe that God, Love, was caring for me and my family? When I reached home, I had some distressing doubts, and I knew it was time to turn to God with all my heart and pray. 

I found this statement by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, comforting: “Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 149–150).