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Financial needs—met
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
To me, graduating from college meant freedom, getting my own place, and living my own life. But soon the pressures of providing for myself financially began to mount. The freedom I’d envisioned soon turned into enslavement—to bills and constant need.
It was hard not to become frustrated. I couldn’t find a job in my field, and soon resorted to waiting tables. While this helped a bit, I was unhappy, and barely made ends meet. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the graciousness of my sister, with whom I was living, I wouldn’t have been able to afford a place to live.
At one point, I was working for a catering company. This required frequently driving all over the city where I lived to get to different venues. While the money I made at this job was good, it wasn’t always steady. On one particular afternoon, I was supposed to drive to an event nearly 30 miles from my house. The gas light was on in my car, and I had about $1 in my checking account. My sister wasn’t home and there was no one else to help me. I was stuck. At first I thought, “How annoying—I need money to get gas, but I need gas in order to get to work to make money!” But in the middle of these thoughts of frustration and lack, I remembered to reach out to God. A line from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy occurred to me: “Thoughts unspoken are not unknown to the divine Mind.” I was comforted in knowing that God, as the all-knowing intelligent Mind, already knew my thoughts and needs. And as Christ Jesus promises, “your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him”.
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