Safety & Security
“I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. ... He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. ...He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
Psalms 91
The Bible, King James Version
“Home is the consciousness of good
That holds us in its wide embrace;
The steady light that comforts us
In every path our footsteps trace.”
Christian Science Hymnal
“Our Father's house has many rooms,
And each with peace and love imbued;
No child can ever stray beyond
The compass of infinitude.”
Christian Science Hymnal
“Home is the Father's sweet ‘Well done,’
God's daily, hourly gift of grace.
We go to meet our neighbor's need,
And find our home in every place.”
Christian Science Hymnal
“The highest trust is putting our faith not in human circumstances or other people but in God and divine goodness. ...When we trust God, we find goodness to be real and forever ongoing because it is God-inspired, God-established, and God-maintained.”
“...when we acknowledge that God is the supreme Mind and that He will lead us only in ways that are right for us, we can trust God to do just that.”
“Trust is a spiritual muscle that needs to be exercised and thereby strengthened. We strengthen it by keeping God’s nature—His all-power, ever-presence, and comforting, healing love—uppermost in our thinking and by allowing God to govern our actions. Like all exercise, sometimes this takes great effort.”
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
Proverbs 3
The Bible, New Living Translation Version
“Prayer reveals a new inspired view of employment and shows that instead of being without a job, each and every one of us is always employed. God employs each of us as witnesses to His goodness and grace. He employs us to express His abilities. He's the real source of the very qualities that make us employable.”
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who directs you in the path by which you should go.”
Isaiah 48:17
The Bible, International Standard Version
“[God] has mercy upon us, and guides every event of our careers.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Unity of Good p. 3
“I needed to be grounded in my conviction that God was supporting the whole employment process. Instead of trying to grab hold of the right job, I could know that things would fall into place according to God's timing, not mine.”
“The chaos of mortal mind is made the stepping-stone to the cosmos of immortal Mind.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 56
“Chaos – a total lack of organization or order”
“Cosmos – a complete, orderly, harmonious system”
“...we can detect early the fear that underlies chaos or hatred and let our thoughts be informed by divine Mind in a peace-generating direction.”
“We can all learn how to see through and beyond the chaos to the security of God's cosmos—learn to see the actual presence of God's kingdom here on earth.”