Help and happiness

Job satisfaction doesn't always depend on the job.

from the May 4, 2007 edition

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God loves us and has made us to love Him and one another. Getting to know Soul better and trying to better understand everyone's indestructible connection with the source of all satisfaction and happiness has been and is deeply rewarding.

Jesus had a clear grasp of everyone's relation to God. His love for individuals in every walk of life exemplified God's love for each of His children. As Jesus went about the countryside teaching and healing, he gave the very best example of caring for others. He instructed people to love God supremely and to love their neighbors as themselves.

As I've endeavored to follow this teaching, I've come to see that loving God is more than feeling an emotional closeness. It's being willing to listen closely for how He would have me act and then to be obedient to that direction. In turn, it becomes clear how to love my neighbor – colleagues, family members, and clients.

As a teacher, the opportunities to love and to be kind, gentle, and patient were endless. Now, in my spiritual ministry, I bring all these satisfying traits, and more, to bear each day.

Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, wrote in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul" (p. 60).

Obedience to Soul's demands, whether we are doctors, lawyers, paper carriers, receptionists, or roofers, aligns us with God, the source of real satisfaction, and opens the "windows of heaven" that we may receive the blessings He bestows – including happiness and satisfaction.

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