MAKING THE BEST OF THINGS

DENICE REHBURG KOCH

Have you ever stopped to consider what you really mean when you say, "We shall have to make the best of things"? If you mean accepting loss, reverses, disappointments, or perhaps a tragic experience with the highest courage possible and the grim determination to take the little that is left, if any, and go on from there, Christian Science can show you a more joyous and rewarding way. Admittedly courage is better than despair, optimism preferable to pessimism, and the will to go forward more admirable than bitter resignation, but unless these qualities are based upon something higher than mere human resolve, they often fail. Christian Science in its revelation of God as the only creator and cause maintains that all good qualities emanate from Him and are forever expressed by man, His image and likeness.

The following experience illustrates how a family of Christian Scientists found this to be true and thereby discovered the most successful way to make the best of things. These Scientists, because of financial reverses, had had to part with their home, and at a great loss. In the years that followed, as they moved from one place to another, they earnestly tried to make the best of things and beautify each place where they lived. Things, however, did not improve.

Then one day a member of the family said to herself: "What are these things we are trying to make the best of? Are they the house we live in, the debts we have incurred, the difficult relationships involved, the mistakes we have made? Or are they our health, our strength, our household goods?" Then like a flash came these words as if spoken aloud (John 1:3): "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." She waited, and another angel message came (Gen. 1:31): "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." These messages started her on a quest to discover what things God has made, and how she could make the best of them.

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