Article November 24, 1934 Issue

Thanksgiving

ARCHIBALD CAREY

WHAT a fullness of rejoicing the word "thanksgiving" elicits! As we remember the good that has come to us in every day of our lives, thought naturally turns to the great Giver of all good and the unchanging, tender love and care of our Father-Mother God, who is the source of all our blessings. We could not be satisfied with mere pleasure in the possession of the things we have, any more than a child who had many gifts could fully enjoy them without a grateful recognition of the love which had prompted the giving. Our gratitude to God completes our happiness.

And how our cup is running over with spiritual abundance! How much more appreciation of good we have, how much more gratitude, love, intelligence, courage, joy than ever before! We are realizing more and more the capacity to love which God has given us—to love God, to love all His children, to love everything that His goodness, and to love so completely we are accepting the joy belongs to the sons of God. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be us, that we should be called the sons of God."

As we recall all the blessings which have come to us individually, to our families, and to our nations, we see that God has given the great gift of spiritual good to all mankind, that as one great family of God's children we are rejoicing together in this spiritual abundance, and that our realization of it is increased by sharing. We find that each one of God's children is receiving of and contributing to the good which constitutes true happiness in families, in friendships, in church and business relationships. Each nation is manifesting good, in its gifts which benefit us all, in its expressions of beauty and utility. In gaining a fuller recognition of God's laws and His righteous government, we see that we all have the unlimited abundance of ideas of the one infinite Mind to draw upon, in order to bring out a solution of every problem in a way that will bless all whom it touches; that we all can reflect the kindliness and breadth of vision of divine Love in approaching whatever situation arises, and that we all can express the firmness of Principle in standing by what is right and just until it is clearly established in human affairs. Deeply grateful we must be for the presence of the great irresistible power of God, whose fiat was voiced in the angelic message, "On earth peace, good will toward men.

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