When I first took up the study of Christian Science I was in a very bad way, both physically and mentally; but I at once began to have hope, and was healed within a short time of constipation, salt rheum, and a skin disease of many years' standing. This was over eighteen years ago; and these healings have been permanent. I have had many other healings since, including sprained ankles and weak and swollen wrists. I am particularly grateful for the gradual and permanent healing of a so-called incurable disease that strikes at one not only physically but also mentally. I am grateful, too, that I am being healed of pride, self-condemnation, irritability, rebellion, bitterness, and lack of love, and that in their place are coming the true qualities and characteristics of the real man, God's image and likeness.
The thing for which I am most grateful to-day is this, that I am learning that God is ever present good; that this good is around me all the time; that only the good in the past is real; and that everything is working for good in the future. I must hold this in thought to bring forth its manifestation, and as I do so I find it working out in my financial affairs and the various details of everyday life. The difference in my mental outlook brings happiness, love, and joy into my thought and life.
I am thankful that I am learning not to struggle so much, but just to know that God does satisfy all our human needs if we try to lift our thought above the human to the divine, where all is good and our needs are always met.
