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‘Abundant good that money cannot buy’

It often seems there are more problems than resources to meet them. But turning to God for inspiration brings solutions that meet our needs, enabling us to experience God’s love and care for all.

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Lean on the sustaining infinite
And blessings will be yours.
Lean not on person, place, or thing,
Or economic laws;
But lean upon all-blessing God
Who will all needs supply
And give to all abundant good
That money cannot buy.
– Jill Gooding, alt., “Christian Science Hymnal: Hymns 430-603,” No. 519, © CSBD

God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
– Philippians 4:19

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! More we cannot ask: more we do not want: more we cannot have. This sweet assurance is the “Peace, be still” to all human fears, to suffering of every sort.
– Mary Baker Eddy, “Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896,” p. 307

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