Thanksgiving
Why be grateful?
Because gratitude is a powerful healing force. It is
a quality of God that replaces complaint with sat
is faction, self-pity with joy, and lack with abun
dance. You might be surprised to find how much
you have to be grateful for.
This was the beginning of an advertisement in a local paper inviting the public to attend a Thanksgiving service in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, a number of years ago.
A woman who saw this ad was prompted to recognize even in dire circumstances that she had quite a lot to be grateful for. She cut the ad out of the paper with the idea that she might attend the service. Everything seemed against her getting to church. She had no transportation. It was raining very hard. But she was guided to set off to find the church.
