How beautifully does nature teach us all to sing new songs of gratitude to our Father-Mother God! Although no two sunsets spread their gorgeous coloring over the western sky exactly alike, no two roses unfold their hidden beauty precisely the same, no two bluebirds fill the air with the same exactness of melody, yet all are sending forth their psalms of thanksgiving to the Giver of all good, thereby teaching mankind the buoyancy, the joy, the beauty, and the inspiration of His creation.
When one begins to "sing unto the Lord a new song" in words of praise, in smiles of thanksgiving, in acts of unselfed love, the mesmerism of fear, discouragement, self-pity, resentment, quickly disappears. Only the willingness to let the warmth of spiritual love flood one's consciousness is needed to inspire a new song of joy. As eagerly as one throws wide open the windows and doors during the days of early spring to fill the house with its freshness, sweetness, and loveliness, should the Christian Science student open his mental door to the "new song" concerning God and His spiritual universe including man. This song he can hear while studying the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, reading the periodicals, listening to a lecture, or taking part in church activities. He will find that as joyously as the song of the birds goes forth, these truths will be reflected in his daily contact with his fellow man. for in this song is found the new language which all may understand, the language of unselfed love.
This new song of unselfed love was sung many centuries ago by "a great woman" whom the world has since come to know as the Shunammite. So unreservedly had she thrown open her mental door to the truth of the omnipresence and omnipotence of God that, when confronted with the evidence that her son had passed on, she made haste to go to Elisha, the man of God, whom she had often entertained as a guest in her home. Asked by her husband why she was going, she simply but courageously replied, "It shall be well." When she reached Mount Carmel, where Elisha abode, and was questioned concerning herself, her husband, and their child, she again courageously replied, "It is well." Truly that day a new song was sung unto the Lord, a song of absolute assurance that God was indeed able to meet all human needs, even to destroy the enemy called death. This new psalm of praise and hope, of faith and love, was answered, for we are told in the narrative how the child was restored to life through the understanding prayer of the prophet Elisha.
