For Christian Scientists, Thanksgiving is not a day but an all-season event. We are grateful we have found the Way. The promised Comforter is here — 150 years on as recorded in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy — and for eternity.
“. . . he shall teach you all things.” (John 14:26).
Be glad!
One of the infinite lessons we learn from the Way-shower and the Comforter is to give thanks — always — regardless of human circumstances. Also, we learn how to love perfectly. Irving Tomlinson records, “A member of the household once asked her [Mrs. Eddy], ‘Do you love me?’ One should have seen Mrs. Eddy’s face; she looked in wonderment at such a question. After a thoughtful pause, she replied, ‘I just love.’” (Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy, Amplified Edition, p. 225)
True Love is not complicated and needs no person, place or thing to call it forth. It is self-existent. It is the solvent to all human woe.
Give thanks!
We have all experienced true Love’s peaceful, healing effect and humanity needs to feel more of it. It is really so simple . . . we just need to learn true Love! Let us all work together to demonstrate more fully the healing power of divine Love, helping to nurse a broken-hearted world.
This is where the ministry of Christian Science nursing shines — quietly witnessing Love’s presence, tenderly supporting and practically expressing the Comforter’s care in ways that uplift and heal.
“Love with a heart of tenderness
Your enemies and friends;
However hard this may appear,
This quality just mends.
For Love is God in action true,
A presence that is felt;
A healing and a saving power
That will all discord melt.” (Hymn 519)
Rejoice!
CCSNA Coordinators