At every Christian Science Sunday service the First Reader reads this passage from I John: "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
A magazine cartoon pictured a direction sign with one arrow pointing down a palm-fringed path to "away from it all," while another arrow pointing in the opposite direction was marked simply "it all.
Recalling the story of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp, we may sometimes wish that this story were true and that an all-powerful force was available to lift us out of poverty, concern, sickness, worry, or distress.
As we let affection, compassion, meekness, and thanks to God persistently grow within and transform our thought, we naturally cultivate a grateful attitude; we live our gratitude.
