Editorial October 21, 1972 Issue

Memory Can Serve Us Well

Alan A. Aylwin

Christian Science shows us that the allness and goodness of God is an ever-present fact, a fact that can be realized and applied only in the living present. An understanding of this stops us from disturbing and darkening our thought by morbidly brooding on unhappy events in the past, thus harming our health and well-being.

However, the human faculty of memory can be seen as a blessing when it brings to thought happenings of lasting significance. Who among us does not recognize the positive lessons gained from the remembrance of brave and unselfish deeds or happy hours spent with loved ones? When, for example, we call to mind the personal sacrifice made by many who fought for their country, we should feel impelled to be of greater service ourselves—to work and pray for a world where war and conflict are unknown.

Veterans Day should be a day of grateful recognition, a day on which we can express thanks for the many fine people who in service to their country have surrendered personal comfort and careers—even their human sense of life. It is an occasion when we all can recognize more fully that duty well done is a mark of that higher humanhood which symbolizes man's spiritual being and its inseparable unity with God, divine Love. The Psalmist's words are apropos: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."^{Ps. 118:24;}

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