God Meets Our Needs

After finding this precious independent Christian Science church online in 2020, we made plans to fly to America to meet our dear church family at Plainfield Independent. For nearly three years after deciding to do this, we won and lost so much business. It was ridiculous. We would submit detailed proposals to our clients who would accept them, only to have a bizarre string of circumstances tear that work away, taking our livelihood by all manner of occurrences and reducing our plans to fly to America to rubble. Learning at this church was key.

Finally it came down to following one of two pathways: we could either follow the open path that God had made for us and fly to America and meet our dear church family, which was financially dangerous and would reduce our dwindling finance to zero. Or, we could stay in Australia, put some safe backup plans in place with my father-in-law and navigate a safer pathway according to mortal mind. We did not know what the right thing was to do but God did know – and these two pathways came to a head on one afternoon, within about three minutes of each and we made our choice to come to America and be with our Holy Church.

God did miraculously help us from all directions. I was so grateful for the recorded Scripture, numerous articles by our early workers, “Science and Health” and “Miscellaneous Writings” by Mary Baker Eddy all which we downloaded from the church website to focus our prayer during the twenty-eight hour journey. Through this I was healed of travel sickness and a fear of flying. The treatments in these recordings also turned aggressive people on the plane to become calm and kind, and weather conditions over the pacific ocean were peaceful and blessed.

A final test came at the customs office when we landed at LAX. The customs officer was very angry, and although I had all my short stay visa papers in order, and we had the hotel booked and my husband is an American citizen by birth, this customs agent decided that he did not want me in the country, being so aggressive from the get go. I silently prayed dear Father surely it is not your will that we would come all this way, take this financial risk only to be turned away from America. As the customs agent continued to interrogate me, he asked all manner questions about my church and my intentions in America and the final question: “Do you have any gifts to give these people that you claim to love?” I said “no” – he said “Why? Since you claim to love them so much? And my immediate answer – and the absolute Truth – was that we had sent them Christmas gifts already – some sweet little carved wooden bookmarks for the congregation and the dear Sunday school children, to which I couldn’t help smiling because I remembered how much the dear little children loved those little gifts. And with that, this man changed – he could see the love we have for our sweet Sunday school children and for the congregation and so he then let us pass through the gate.

We almost missed our connecting flight because of this delay, but at last we arrived in New Jersey – tired yes – but we arrived. In meeting our dear church family at our first testimony meeting and feeling the Holy prayer in our church I cried oceans of love, we were both overwhelmed with Gods love, and so it was for all the blessed weeks we were there.

That was just over a year ago now, and since returning to Australia, God has blessed us immensely – our financial ruin which was imminent – losing our home – all the things that had been thrown at us by error have dissolved. We now have secure work; my husband working side by side with me at one of our former clients. It would be more than 20 years ago that I was told that I work for God by my dear Australian practitioner. And today, learning at this church I finally understand that – no matter what the outside world is doing it is God who is performing the work and it is God whom I serve! And so now I look forward to returning to America to be with our dear Church family at the time that God directs. Thank you my practitioner at this church who supported me through all this time. Thank you God, thank you Christ Jesus, thank you Mary Baker Eddy.