Article June 29, 1929 Issue

To-day's Blessings and Opportunities

GRACE SNYDER

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." So writes Mrs. Eddy in the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. vii). How many times has the student of Christian Science proved the truth of this statement! Daily—yes, hourly—to lean upon "the sustaining infinite" brings a satisfaction and peace which the world can neither give nor take away.

To begin each day with God means that we are bringing into our experience more of patience, humility, childlike trust, and joyful expectancy, qualities that are indispensable to the healing of the sick and the reforming of the sinner. It means that we are not looking backward with vain regret at our past mistakes and what may seem to us to be lost opportunities; for we have begun to realize that the man of God's creating never erred, and that man in the image and likeness of God always stands at the threshold of opportunity. Nor are we wasting time in fearfully contemplating what the future may have in store for us; for have we not the assurance of our Way-shower in these words: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you"? The Apostle Paul in his letter to Philippians dwells on the desirability and necessity of "forgetting those things which are behind," and of keeping the high goal always in sight.

What is our mental attitude in taking up our daily tasks? Do we sometimes consider them laborious and monotonous, and perform them perfunctorily and from a mistaken sense of duty? If so, we may know that we are not working in harmony with divine Love; for when we are conscious of God's presence, of His power and His tenderness, gratitude will so inevitably fill our hearts that our work will be regarded as a glorious opportunity to serve our fellow-men. The dull material routine will be transformed as we become conscious of our unity with God.

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