During this Thanksgiving holiday, it is natural to think of the many blessings we have received during the year and to be grateful for all that our Father-Mother God has given us. We are grateful that because of our unity with Him, we know that divine Love is caring for us all equally and continuously. The inspired words of Christ Jesus, “I and my Father are one” were practically demonstrated in the Master’s mighty healing works (John 10:30). To the degree that we follow him, we demonstrate our own oneness with God in healing works. In fact, Jesus said that in following him we would do even greater works than he did (see John 14:12). Man’s spiritual identity and his eternal unity with his Maker, God, infinite good, is the basis of prayer in Christian Science. A grateful heart is ever prepared to receive these truths.
Nothing that does not belong to man as God’s child can ever be added, and nothing inherent in man’s nature can ever be taken away.
Through healing, Jesus showed us that no aspect of man’s identity as God’s own image could ever be changed. Nothing that does not belong to man as God’s child can ever be added, and nothing inherent in man’s nature can ever be taken away. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss” (p. 481). Elsewhere in that book we read, “Man is the expression of God’s being” (p. 470). Because man is the very expression of God, subordinate only to Him and therefore unbounded by any sense of human limitations, we are never lacking—anything. And for this revelation, we can always be thankful.
