Employment statistics can go up and down or stay relatively stable, but there’s a way we can always feel gainfully employed, irrespective of our job status. It’s seeing our moment-by-moment purpose from a spiritual standpoint. If we feel in our heart that our most important endeavor is getting to know God and understanding and accepting how God knows us and others, we’ll always feel and be spiritually employed.

There are two broad categories of such employment. The first is joyfully opening our heart to God’s nature. Christian Science reveals many synonyms for God, including seven that are particularly helpful: Love, Life, Truth, Spirit, Soul, Mind, and Principle. Becoming conscious of God’s presence and power by digging deep into the significance of any of these synonyms to our lives never leaves us where it found us. For instance, becoming conscious of the ever-presence of infinite Love shows us that we’re inseparable from the boundless source of good that unfolds our God-glorifying purpose and meets our every need, including our need to pay the bills.

The second category is letting Truth motivate us to examine ourselves with the openness to let Christ transform us. Christ is the true idea of God, which also reveals our true nature as God’s spiritual expression. This view shines a glorious light that shows us our actual, spiritual identity. Yet by its very nature, Christ, Truth, also exposes what isn’t Godlike and is therefore unreal (though seeming real), pointing out our need for reformation. Persisting in imbibing the true idea of our nature dispels any misconceptions we have ignorantly or willfully taken on board.