When Devotion Provides

Many people feel drawn to a career as a birth worker or healing practitioner but fear a lack of abundance if they follow this calling.

Something deep inside of them knows this is a calling from their soul, their higher self or even God/Goddess. Doing this work can be an act of devotion to these higher aspects of us, but struggle to balance faith with fear.

Not because they don’t believe in something greater, but because devotion feels risky. Impractical. Almost irresponsible in a world that demands certainty, plans, and proof.

We’re taught that material security comes from control:

• stable jobs

• careful planning

• predictability

• staying within known structures

  
  

Devotion seems to ask the opposite.

So when spiritual traditions speak about being “provided for,” many people quietly think: That sounds beautiful, but unrealistic.

And yet… something in us still longs for it.

In the Devi Mahatmya, the Divine Mother makes a striking promise.

She says that those who devote themselves to her, who live with her presence in their heart, will be cared for. That what they lack will be carried, and what they have will be preserved.

This isn’t meant as blind reassurance or fantasy.

It’s an invitation to a different orientation to life.

Devotion, in this sense, isn’t about worship rituals or belief systems.

It’s about alignment.

It’s about listening for what life is asking of you, and responding honestly.

For some people, that response looks like caregiving. For others, it looks like creating, teaching, healing, building, fixing, or tending. For many, it begins quietly, by telling the truth about what no longer fits.

Devotion doesn’t ask you to abandon responsibility. It asks you to stop living in resistance to your own nature.

When people hear “serve God,” they often imagine sacrifice or self-denial.

But service, at its most grounded, is simply this:

offering what you are already shaped to offer.

When you follow your natural inclinations toward care, creativity, presence, and service, something subtle begins to reorganize.

Opportunities appear. Support shows up in unexpected ways. Needs are met, not always how you planned, but often more fitting than you could have designed.

This isn’t because you’re being rewarded.

It’s because you’re no longer fighting the current.

Being “provided for” doesn’t mean life becomes easy or predictable.

It means you’re no longer carrying everything alone.

It means trusting that when you take the next honest step, not the entire staircase, the ground will meet you.

For many people, this looks like:

• leaving work that drains the soul and finding work that uses the heart

• discovering that meaningful service attracts sustainable income

• realizing that faith grows through lived experience, not belief

  
  

Provision follows devotion not because devotion guarantees comfort, but because it restores relationship.

Relationship with life. Relationship with God/Goddess. Relationship with yourself.

This is especially relevant for those drawn to healing, caregiving, or service-based paths.

These callings rarely make sense on paper. They don’t fit neatly into spreadsheets or five-year plans.They require trust, not recklessness, but faith grounded in listening.

The Divine Mother’s promise isn’t:“I will make you safe.”

It’s closer to:“If you walk with me, I will not abandon you.”

There’s a difference.

A devotional life doesn’t mean quitting your job tomorrow or making dramatic declarations.

It often begins with smaller acts:

• choosing integrity over fear

• choosing presence over numbness

• choosing service over status

• choosing truth over convenience

  
  

Over time, those choices accumulate.

Life responds.

Not always immediately. Not always predictably. But often faithfully.

If you feel drawn to a life of purpose and service, you don’t need to have it all figured out.

You don’t need to know how you’ll be supported.

You only need to listen for what is asking for your care, and respond honestly.

The rest unfolds in relationship.

That is devotion. And that is how true abundance begins.