When my friends and I were young and attending primary school in Kenya, where I live, our parents used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up.
Some years ago, my wife and I spent our Saturdays in the summer reading the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s writings on our favorite ocean beach in northern Massachusetts.
The word translated thanksgiving in the Golden Text and Responsive Reading for this Christian Science Bible Lesson comes from a Hebrew word that implies extending the hands in adoration of God, perhaps as part of a chorus of worshippers.