Late last year, after a great deal of prayer, I decided to move from Boulder, Colorado to Washington, DC. With just over two months to prepare, I began to crunch the numbers and make plans.

Since I wouldn’t need my own transportation in DC, I wanted to sell my car. Cash from the sale would fill in a few gaps in my moving budget. I felt that God was leading me to make this move to a new city, and He would furnish the necessary resources to make it possible.

I placed an ad online to sell my car. I received a few responses, but no one seemed especially interested. So I placed another ad and put up flyers. I lowered the price to my rock-bottom figure. Several people looked at the car but they never called back. Weeks went by with no offers, and I started to feel discouraged.

I bought a plane ticket to DC and put a deposit on an apartment. But to cover expenses before I left, I still needed to sell my car.

Despite the way things looked, I felt a calm assurance that God was unfolding a perfect solution. My job was to trust and listen to Him. Somehow I just knew that the situation was all in God’s control.

By relying on God’s law of good, I expect to see His goodness expressed in my life. I believe that God brings His ideas together for good, so I was convinced there was someone who needed my car as much as I needed to sell it.

I started to focus on the spiritual ideas behind cars. Instead of seeing a hunk of metal and wires that could break down at any moment, I thought about how the one Mind, or God, is expressed in the inspired thought of automobile designers and engineers. I also realized that it's the harmonious Principle, God, who helps me be a responsible and safe driver.

I was grateful not for material ownership of a physical object, but for the provision, freedom, and safety I'd experienced since I first bought the car. Although I'd been frustrated with it occasionally in the past, I felt immense gratitude for the ways my need for transportation had been met over the years.

As I prayed, the thought kept coming back to me that this situation was an opportunity for someone else to be blessed by these same ideas of provision from divine Principle. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes, — Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply.” Instead of feeling that I was at the mercy of potential buyers, I needed to cherish this spiritual law of supply and demand.

There is an abundance of good available to each one of us at every moment. What God gives us is harmonious, universal, and perfectly ordered by Principle. Mary Baker Eddy put it this way: “Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, ‘Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.’” I began to understand that the good God had in store for me didn’t depend on selling the car.

Less than a week before I left Colorado, a woman called me. She had just moved to Colorado from New York with her young daughter, and wanted to buy a car quickly so she could look for work.

We made an appointment, but she called back later that day to say she wouldn't have the money to buy the car for another month. She apologized, and said that unless I'd be willing to consider an offer well below my asking price, there was no point in her seeing the car.

I thanked her for letting me know and we hung up. A minute later, the idea came to call her back and tell her I'd be willing to take the money in two payments. I hesitated before picking up the phone. I hadn't considered offering that option to anyone else, and I didn’t know this woman. Was this a wise move?

Still, I reasoned that since I had been praying for guidance, I needed to listen. I called her back, explained the idea, and we made another appointment. I continued to pray and listen for God’s direction. I felt very strongly that I wanted to see this situation unfold in a way that blessed everyone involved.

When we met, she quickly decided to buy the car, and wrote me a deposit check that night. The situation worked out perfectly for both of us—she was able to buy a much nicer car than she'd have been able to afford with the cash she had. I received my full asking price, and was able to keep the car until the day before I left, which made my many last-minute errands much easier. If I'd sold the car earlier, those busy final months would have been far more complicated.

When I told her about my impending move and the few details that I hadn’t worked out yet, she said, “That’s all right. Someone will bless you just like you are blessing me.”

I felt blessed already. I was so excited and inspired that I barely thought about the check in my purse. Even though the sale had seemed to be delayed, God was providing for me—and the woman who bought the car—every step of the way. I embarked on the journey to my new city feeling graced with abundant evidence of God’s loving care and provision.

I have been in DC for four months now, and have witnessed many more examples of God bringing His ideas together to bless one another. Friendship, employment, and purpose have come into my experience as I have continued to trust divine, limitless Love to meet each need. And though the money from the sale of my car is long gone, that demonstration of good continues to supply me with invaluable confidence and joy.

Blessings for all:

Science and Health

206:15 
13:2

King James Bible

Mark 10:27