Dear Friend,
If life were truly a mixture of good and evil, could we ever be wholehearted in our gratefulness to our creator? There’d always be something holding us back—a whispering that God has allowed for imperfection, lack, vulnerability to harm, that He’s only giving us some good.
That dispiriting view can help explain why Adam and Eve, in the biblical account, hid from God after they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. All it gave them was a sense that they were far from “very good,” as God defines us earlier in Genesis. And they felt, not reverence, but fear and shame in the presence of their Maker.
But when we glimpse the truth—that God is perfect good and supplies all good—we don’t want to hide from, but bask in, that spiritual light. A “Hallelujah!” might even spring from our lips as we recognize ourselves as His whole and harmonious children.
There’s much giving of thanks in this month’s Journal: gratitude that’s a window to ever-present spiritual reality, and gratitude that both precedes and follows prayer and healing. In every piece, love for God shines through and lifts our lives higher, too.
God is giving us limitless reasons to be thankful with all our hearts. As we sing in Hymn 181, “May we all awake to praise Thee / For Thy good gifts from above” (Rosemary B. Hackett, Christian Science Hymnal, © CSBD).
Roya Sabri, Staff Editor
