Editorial May 4, 1974 Issue

Today Is Beautiful

Carl J. Welz

It is easy to thank God for today when things are going well. But there is beauty in this and every day to fill us with joy, if we see it. Even when things appear to be difficult, or when work, home, friendships, possessions, disappoint us, or when we think we have failed, this day is wonderful. Why? Because what appears to the senses to be is not what is.

What really is, is much more than the imperfect world we usually see. It is infinite God and His creation. God is the Principle of all. He is perfect. His creation is the expression or idea of Principle. It is perfect. Man is God's creation. He is a compound idea that includes all. Each of us, in reality, is an individual instance of the infinite idea of the divine Mind, a reflection of Principle.

The Bible gives a number of accounts of people for whom all seemed to be lost, but whose eyes were opened to see and enjoy the goodness of God. Elisha's servant, for example, saw "horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha."^{II Kings 6:17;} And Mary Magdalene, thinking Jesus dead, begged of one she believed to be the gardener that he show her where they had taken the body. "Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; ... Master."^{John 20:16;}