Article July 17, 1978 Issue

Not healed yet? Gratitude is essential!

PAULA BUSBY GORALCZYK

Do you want to be healed? There's no better time for healing than right now. Take a moment to be grateful for the supremacy and ever-presence of God and for the good He has already given you.

Gratitude for the good we've already received can and does bring about healing. Humbly giving thanks for good derived from God, the source of all good, opens our thought to the spiritual truths that destroy sickness and all imperfection.

One time while traveling I became quite ill and called a Christian Science practitioner for help through prayer. After I explained the trouble, she simply told me, "Just be grateful." Her words came as a surprise, and at first I could hardly imagine being grateful when I felt so ill. It would have been easy to express gratitude spontaneously if the healing had been already apparent. Nevertheless, I was obedient.

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