"Use your moments in praising God, divine Love." This thought came to me one day after I'd spent at least an hour waiting for traffic lights to turn green and standing in lines in the post office and grocery store. The time seemed wasted—and indeed it was, for I was irritated and annoyed, and these unlovely reactions were stifling my expression of spiritual joy.

To use our time in praising God implies continuous gratitude for His goodness, whatever the material evidence may be. This state of thought eliminates false beliefs that imperil the rewards of true sonship; it progressively reveals man's real spiritual individuality.

Praising God in our moments keeps human consciousness above the debased mortal picture of things and substantiates the supremacy of God's goodness in our lives. Christ Jesus, our Exemplar, speaking of God, said, "I do always those things that please him." ^{John 8:29;}

Christian Science recognizes God, divine Love, as the source of spiritual individuality. Man, reflecting Love, reflects God's love for all His children. It is natural for individuals, then, responding to God's love, to love each other and cherish the essential good inherent in true identity. When we are engaged in the minutiae of daily affairs, instead of reacting to the mortal sense of man and things, we can praise God, infinite Love, by loving all those around us.

For example, as we wait for a red light to change, we can praise God by knowing that all is embraced in God's tender love and by knowing all God's ideas to be safe from suggestions of accident and fear. When we drive down the highway, we can honor God by appreciating the beauties of nature, which figuratively represent God's love, beauty, order, grandeur. As we love what these hint at of spiritual reality, we help to neutralize the mental pollutants of the mortal atmosphere that would claim to stifle spiritual inspiration and its elements of good. Going through the check-out counters in supermarkets, we can praise Him in quiet gratitude for His abundance and provision for all His children.

As we walk down the street, perhaps encountering individuals who are lame or suffering, we can praise God by affirming the allness and oneness of divine Love, and the consequent nothingness of disease. We can praise Him by seeking His blessing as Mrs. Eddy did; she tells us, "Three times a day, I retire to seek the divine blessing on the sick and sorrowing, with my face toward the Jerusalem of Love and Truth, in silent prayer to the Father which 'seeth in secret,' and with childlike confidence that He will reward 'openly.'" ^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 133;}

We acknowledge God by spiritually negating the suggestions of disease, flood, tornado, death, and gratefully acknowledging that God, Love, is the only author of the universe, including man. This spiritual fact can be repeated in the actions of mankind as the Christ, God's message, speaks to each and every one of us.

The spiritual feast prepared for us at church services and Wednesday evening testimony meetings brings us the truth of perfect God and man. Moments can be devoted to knowing the all-inclusiveness of this truth, embracing our families, neighbors, community—the whole world.

Every moment demands the recognition of our conscious link to God, our inseverable unity with Him. As we employ our moments in praising God for His illimitable glory, might, majesty, omnipotence, we will bring into our experience the truth stated by Mrs. Eddy in No and Yes: "There was never a moment in which evil was real. This great fact concerning all error brings with it another and more glorious truth, that good is supreme. As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no evil. Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it, until God becomes the All and Only of our being." ^{No and Yes, pp. 24-25.}

The universe of God, Love, is peopled with spiritual ideas coexisting with God and with each other in mutual blessing. Love is the Father-Mother of the universe and holds each idea intact. Hunger, sorrow, disease, suffering, have no source, condition, power, or presence in Love's universe. Affirmation of these truths and others like them in our free or waiting moments, as well as in our set-aside times for prayer and study, together with daily practice of their spiritual lessons, is praise that prospers individual and church growth and advances mankind toward godliness. Such praise assuages our own spiritual hunger and, to some degree, that of the world, and it opens up the ever-available resources of God's goodness.

Joyful praise of God, moment by moment, keeps us consciously aware of our unity with His goodness, its continuity and blessings. Praise opens our hearts, enriches our affections, reveals God's infinite individuality—divine Love and its harmonies—and gives proof in our reflected concord of Love's goodness, peace, and joy.