Students of Christian Science around the world are preparing to study the Thanksgiving Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly this month and participate in corresponding church services. As we celebrate in this way, we are putting gratitude into action, thereby opening the door of thought to good, which is a consciousness of God.
I learned a lesson in gratitude recently when plans to move to a new house were unexpectedly altered at the last moment. I was all set to go when the purchase fell through two weeks before Christmas, and I had only four weeks to find somewhere else to live.
My eldest son and his wife generously offered me a space in their home. Although I was so grateful to have had this loving answer to my urgent need, on my first day there I felt very upset and misplaced. I had come from a spacious, quiet home to a tiny apartment on the lower level of a larger house with a regular train service running nearby. Happily, my sad state of thought did not last too long!
