I trusted God and found an internship
Originally published in Portuguese
I’d like to share my testimony about entering the job market.
I’m from São Paulo, Brazil, and I’ve been studying at a college in Canada for three years. Here, we intern during our summer vacation—May to August.
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As I was looking to do an internship last year, I applied for many positions well in advance. My résumé was strong, and I was networking, reaching out to all my professional contacts. I was doing everything I thought I could, and doing it very efficiently.
I expected I would get an internship. But then came March, April, May . . . and I had received mostly rejection letters.
I got called for a bunch of interviews and they went well. Some people said, “Well done! Congratulations on your academic and professional development—you are at the front of the line.” One interviewer even congratulated my parents, saying that they had provided me with a very good education, and that I had made a good impression. In other words, I expected I would get an internship.
But then came March, April, May . . . and I had received mostly rejection letters. I was accepted for one internship, but I prayed and didn’t feel I should take it.
I got a little desperate. But then I decided to adopt a more spiritual perspective. I called a Christian Science practitioner for further help through prayer. He guided me to pray with the ideas in this passage from Proverbs: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (3:5, 6). This message was very important to me. It helped me let go of personal sense and trust only in God.
I then had the opportunity to attend Annual Meeting at The Mother Church early last June, and participate in the youth activities held right before. I learned a lot about listening to God and being obedient to Him, acknowledging that He was taking care of me. I felt that this line of thinking was very much in keeping with the ideas from those Bible verses I had been praying with.
After Annual Meeting, I returned to Brazil to spend my vacation with my parents, with a renewed trust in God. That same week I was offered a position for which I hadn’t applied. I had simply submitted my résumé to this company a year and a half earlier, and a recruiter happened to see it after all this time. She liked it and contacted me. I felt sure that being hired for this internship was an outcome of my trusting unwaveringly in God’s goodness. What comes from God is always harmonious.
I returned to Brazil to spend my vacation with my parents, with a renewed trust in God. That same week I was offered a position for which I hadn’t applied.
During that same time, I attended an online preparatory meeting for a Christian Science lecture that the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I attend in Canada was sponsoring. I really liked an idea shared by the lecturer—that angels don’t need the internet to circulate; they are everywhere and even reach places where there is no internet. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy defines angels as “God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality” (p. 581).
In the context of my own experience, I understood that angels, or spiritual intuitions, come continuously to everyone, everywhere—to recruiters and job seekers alike. This experience, to me, was a reminder of the blessings that unfold when we trust God entirely, listening to Him and obeying Him alone.