When Your Workplace Closes


What can we do if our work place closes its doors? Does this mean an end
to our work experience? Are we left with a void in our lives? Perhaps
it is time to turn to God.

Wherever we are God is. God does care for us and He is the one guiding
our lives. He knows the needs of each of His children right this very
moment. Every one of his children can be placed where they can best
express God. We may have become separated from our place of employment
but we have not become separated from God. It is God that is guiding our
work experience and not man. Mary Baker Eddy in her major work Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures says: "No mortal mind has the might
or right or wisdom to create or to destroy. All is under the control of
the one Mind, even God."(544:14-17)

God's business never closes, never has a lay off. You are always going
to be employed in His business. There is a place for you and everyone in
your company in this business. It is the biggest and busiest company you
can ever seek. There is not one person who is more employable than
another. We should take Jesus example "I must be about my Father's
business?"(Luke 2:49) Working in God's business means that this business
can be a joyful one. We dwell with God and the more we dwell with Him
the happier our work environment will be.

After working ten years for a company, which I enjoyed, I was told it
would be closing. The company we merged with I was not eager to work
for. The first few weeks seemed to be total chaos. Every day I wanted to
quit. I reached my lowest point on my new job, when I was on night
duty for about four weeks. I kept asking myself how could God put me in
a place like this?

A couple of the employees of this company told me about fires that kept
happening around the property we were working at. I looked up the
definition of fire in Science in Health. "Fear; remorse; lust; hatred;
destruction; affliction purifying and elevating man." (586:13-14)

I called a Christian Science Practitioner to help me pray about this
situation. She pointed out to me that God was with me just as much in my
new job, as he was in my old one. Is chaos and friction part of God?
God knows only harmony and His idea man can only know harmony. The place
that God puts me can only be to bless me.

I realized that I had to examine my thinking. Was I afraid of working at
a different facility? Was I being remorseful over the closing of the
facility that I came from? Did I hate my new environment and wish it
were closed instead of the place I had been working at. If so than I was
contributing to the problems at my work place. It is not the work place
that gives me problems. It is how I think of it. God good is all that is
going on. I could not let my thought be taken in by an opposite picture.

God is in this place caring for all of his children. God governs always.
God is in charge of this company and He is in charge of my life. I am
here only to bless others. I must strive only to be a blessing to the
facility. The kingdom of God is where I am really working.

My happiness does not depend on my job. My happiness comes from God. It
can never be taken away. Persons do not bring me happiness to my job God
does. Everyone here is God's beloved child. God's child is kind,
considerate, and honest.

The last part of the definition of fire states purifying and elevating
man. Does not correcting one's thought about a problem purify and
elevate thought. As I purified and elevated my thinking, I began to
think about God's allness instead of a discordant working place. I gained
a sense of peace about my work.

The fires also stopped. Recently, a nature preservation group bought the
land where the fires had taken place. They have planted fire retardant
plants. They also have security around the area to stop anyone from
setting fires. To me this was proof "that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose."(Rom. 8:28)