Gratitude is the open door leading to greater joy, richer life, and increased receptivity.
I began reading Christian Science literature for physical healing, and as I read and glimpsed the truth that God is Love, Life, and All-in-all, I realized that I needed much. I had tried earnestly to gain an understanding of God and of life through reading both ancient and modern religions, through the study of anatomy, chemistry, and kindred subjects, but when these were concluded and I still knew not God, I set about to seek Him through the Science of Christ.
On page 462 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, it is written: "The anatomy of Christian Science teaches when and how to probe the self-inflicted wounds of selfishness, malice, envy, and hate. It teaches the control of mad ambition. It unfolds the hallowed influences of unselfishness, philanthropy, spiritual love." Jesus the Christ said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." I rejoiced when I knew something of true anatomy, something of the life that Jesus lived and taught. Yet I had not received the much longed-for and the much sought-after physical healing. The illness manifested itself in excruciating pain, persisting for many hours and occurring at intervals of two to six weeks. My own profession failed me, and I appealed to various schools of materia medica, but no two physicians consulted, agreed upon a diagnosis. I refused the prognosis. Thus it was at this point that I turned wholly from material remedies to seek health, wholeness, through the ministrations of divine Love.
