Article March 9, 1935 Issue

Concerning Appreciation

CARRIE H. SANDBERG

All that constitutes God's oneness functions eternally in concordant, spiritual blending; and the expression of perfect Being is man. Quite apart from the perfect expression of God's being is the utterly fabulous so-called mortal man, mistaken by unillumined thought for man himself.

Far from being made up of divine or right ideas, as is the consciousness which reflects God and is man, the supposititious consciousness constituting so-called mortal man consists of false beliefs. And what mischief-makers these false beliefs seem to be! They are prolific in their suggestions of either too little or too much of something or other; and this unbalanced product parades itself as if it were genuine selfhood!

In the effort to carry out Mrs. Eddy's behest, "Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 407), one student of Christian Science was greatly blessed by the following experience. Her thought was arrested by the statement, "We cannot conceal the ingratitude of barren lives" (ibid., p. 4), which instantly became a new message to her, showing that if her life seemed to be barren of health, abundance, happiness, joy, friends, success, progress, peace, or of any good thing, that very barrenness definitely witnessed to ingratitude on her part.

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