Examples of healing
No barriers between you and God’s love
It wasn’t the first day I’d woken up worried. My husband had been unemployed for, well, ages, and my job was only part time. Home, food, cars, taxes, raising a kid—living wasn’t exactly free. So I was worried. I felt like I’d been frowning for months.
This particular day, I remember getting ready to go out and do some errands. But I was so concerned about our finances that I was almost in tears. I was exasperated that my poor, discouraged husband wasn’t out pounding the pavement (we lived in the country so there wasn’t actually that much pavement to pound). I just didn’t know how we were going to have what each of us needed. I was so desperate that all I could do was plead to God to help me. I didn’t expect pennies from heaven. Just some comfort!
Right then, I got this vision. Nothing spooky, just a view of something I had never known before. I suddenly perceived that God gives good to each of His children—that’s everyone—directly.
Directly from Him to my husband. Directly from Him to our daughter. Directly from Him to me. (And directly from Him to you.) Not through anyone else. My well-being wasn’t dependent upon my husband’s work. Our daughter’s ability to participate in activities and to have clothes that fit wasn’t dependent upon our income. God supplies each of His children directly from His infinite love and largesse. God is our attentive Father-Mother, our Creator, our source.
Because God is infinite, He must be right here. There is nothing in between Him and me, or Him and you. This connection is immediate, a union (not us here and Him up in the sky somewhere). This relationship is actually a completely spiritual one. It might look as if it’s God, Spirit, bestowing material gifts (like a job or money) on mortals, but the Giver and the giving is all spiritual.
Mary Baker Eddy, whose writings taught me about this, explained: “God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for to-morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment. What a glorious inheritance is given to us through the understanding of omnipresent Love!” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, p. 307)
The insight I had that day was a bit of “the understanding of omnipresent Love,” and it came as a glorious gift. What a relief! I was grinning! Feeling freed, delighted, and so very grateful to God, I went off to do my errands.
When I got home, there was a little note from my husband on the counter: “I got a job.”
Hours later when he finally returned (it was a long day of wondering and chuckling at his wry note), my husband said that a friend had called and hired him to help build a sugar house—a cabin for making maple syrup. That job led to others and became steady employment. Our financial situation improved, providing more tangible evidence of God’s care.
Over the years since, I’ve never let myself forget that we each get what we need straight from our heavenly Father-Mother, God. Whew! What a gift!
Danis Mutchler lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States.