Article September 27, 1941 Issue

"I am grateful"

[Written Especially for Young People]

THOMAS LOVATT WILLIAMS

Among students of Christian Science there is no phrase more often used than "I am grateful." We hear these words at every testimony meeting, and they occur time after time in the testimonies of healing in the Christian Science periodicals. Surely there must be some very vital reason for the frequent use of these three words.

To be grateful is to be glad. Gratitude goes hand in hand with happiness. The two qualities are inseparable. It can thus safely be said that those who are genuinely saying, "I am grateful," must also be genuinely happy about something.

The truths learned in Christian Science bring healing, and they bring happiness. When these truths are learned and understood, they destroy fear, anxiety, and gloom, and in so doing they also dispel disease and discord of every kind, even as the sunlight dissolves the mists and the darkness. An understanding of God brings freedom from false beliefs, and it is for this understanding that the Christian Scientist is so grateful.

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