Gratitude is a valuable perfume costing nothing, available to all yet too often unused. Its redeeming power is great and its influence far-reaching. It is one of the loveliest graces of Spirit, laden with healing. How greatly the world would be enriched if this precious, Godlike quality were more universally and consistently poured forth!
Gratitude and joy are essential to harmonious living, yet they seem frequently conspicuous by their absence. Prevailing conditions—social and economic, national and international—would rob many people of the joy and gratitude that are native to them because of their true identity as spiritual children of God. In fact, many human beings are questioning if there is anything to be grateful for.
This is understandable if materialism, violence, and unrest are accepted as authentic and inescapable. However, a knowledge of Christian Science enables one to remain unmoved by chaotic world conditions in the realization that only what is divinely ordained is true and durable. Since God is exclusively good and sanctions nothing unlike good, all that is contrary to good or at war with it is without a genuine origin or legitimate existence, being a denial of God's omnipresent supremacy. Evil so viewed no longer causes dismay or alarm.
