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Financial instability? Prayer shuts down the fear
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
Instability on the stock market, the weak dollar, and a certain amount of financial fragility abroad—along with verbal and financial speculation about oil prices—are giving people the jitters. The result is fear and a growing pessimism about the economic future of the United States and the world at large. It’s important not to let this fear continue to grow. Economies are not blessed when people are fearful. In fact, prayer to deny fear in any field of action is a necessity.
While there are no stories in the Bible of stock markets saved through prayer, there are plenty of people who have been protected, have had the money or other means that they needed for survival. A common element in many of these accounts is an individual’s desire to be honest, to do right, and to love God.
Speaking of her own times—which bear an uncanny resemblance to ours—Mary Baker Eddy wrote: “This period is not essentially one of conscience: . . . This is a period of doubt, inquiry, speculation, selfishness; of divided interests, marvelous good, and mysterious evil” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, p. 237).
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Rosalie Dunbar is news editor for the Christian Science Sentinel.
