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Healing Through Overflowing Gratitude to God

From the November 1976 issue of The Christian Science Journal


How great is God's goodness! He is divine Love, and with boundless generosity He pours out spiritual gifts to all His children in unimaginable plenty. Even though this may seem unrealistic to the world's hungry millions, this is the fact. God, infinite good, does abundantly supply the needs of all His creations.

There are no people on earth more obviously whole and satisfied than those who are awake to the divine creator's abundant love for His spiritual offspring, and who have faith in His care for them. None are more blessed in their relationship with others than those who recognize the signs of God's affluence appearing in their human experience and give thanks for it. None are more consistently healthy than those whose thoughts are perpetually overflowing with gratitude for the understanding that God keeps all His children in perfect peace, governed by the law of harmony.

It has become traditional in some countries to designate certain days in the calendar as a season of thanksgiving. This is usually seen as a time for the expression of special gratitude for a plentiful harvest and for other evidences of divine care that have appeared during the year. On these national Thanksgiving Days millions of people praise God with full hearts and thank Him for blessings they have already received and that they have faith are to come. By doing this they open wide the floodgates of divine abundance and make channels for still more evidence of God's goodness to pour into their human lives so that, as the Bible says, "there shall not be room enough to receive it." Mal. 3:10;

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