Everyday is a day of Gladness!

It is said by Mary Baker Eddy, “Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what God gives, and what we give ourselves and others through His tenure, confers happiness: conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can.”¹

Has happiness and gladness seemed illusive, sometimes playing a disappearing act on you?  Happiness comes in doing good, God’s Good.  Happiness is what we give to ourselves and others by doing the highest sense of Good. By seeing that good isn’t selfish, self-centered, but the ultimate of sharing what is divinely Good.  It blesses us all by doing and being Good. It brings to everyone a Divine vision where God’s Glory is the purpose and motive. 

Today Christians celebrate this day of Easter not for the ham dinner, the egg hunts, or the frivolity, but for the Good that Christ Jesus revealed through his extreme action of Love.  He knew what the ultimate purpose was when he let the people try to kill the mortal body.  He knew that it was for the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’. He allowed the ugliest moment in human history to occur.  He had many other times walked through the crowds that wanted to stone him. But he knew that it was the time to break forth the light of eternal life by showing the nothingness of the ‘crowd mentality’ that thought it could end Life.  He knew that Life is God, our Life, our God.  He knew that Life is eternal, perfect, precious and all Good.  He knew that the demonstration of the resurrection would lift thought to higher ideals and purposes in individual and collective lives. Christ Jesus knew that it was the plan of the Fathers that he was to be used for not only God’s healing revelation but also the revelation of eternal Life. 

We may not have to go through a martyr situation.  But every time we give and share Good, glorifying Life as Good, we tear away the curtain of dismal views and beliefs about life in general. We lift all those around us to a higher sense of happiness, joy and Good.

Is it too much to ask to live and share Good?  This happiness of ‘being and doing good’ is given to us by God, Good, to be shared with all.  Is this too much to ask?

Let us be and share Good.  It is the ultimate healing activity.  It breaks oppression, depression and the darkness that tries to hide the light of Good. Let us let this Good resurrect our lives to higher purposes, ways and thoughts.

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1 Message to The Mother Church 1902 page 17 lines 22-25

Gratitude is power...Gratitude is joy!

Gratitude! What a wonderful thing to have.  It is a power of instant joy when one turns to it consistently, humbly, genuinely.  Gratitude, joy and happiness then are found to be qualities within us that cannot be taken away, unless we let them be hidden by ingratitude, disdain, or choosing the wrong side of thoughts and actions.

Man, created by God, the Perfect One, has all the qualities of gratitude, love, joy, happiness, supply, health, beauty, grace and love already within him.  They have to be a part of him for God could not create something He is not.  God created man wonderfully complete, whole, free, and good. 

There is a story about one who put good seed into his field but when he was asleep another came in and planted bad seed (Matthew 13:24-30). 

We must protect our thinking as a precious garden filled with all the perfect seeds of goodness from evil thoughts that try to choke out the good that is within us.  Every time there is a choice in being, doing, seeing Good we must do so or otherwise we’re letting the evil planter sow in bad seeds.  This causes confusion.  It hides the good that we already have and already are.  It complicates our lives.  It brings darkness to our thoughts.  We then have to weed out the false beliefs about ourselves and our lives.  How much easier, quicker, more consistent of the who that we are, precious, perfect, ideas of Mind, God, to just always chose the Good?

Each day, hour, moment brings opportunities for us to magnify the Good that is all around us and within us.  Each moment we GET TO magnify the Good that is Us through gratitude, obedience and pure joy.  Each moment we get to express the goodness that is within us and remove the temptations that try to plant seeds of discontent, ingratitude, sinful activities.  We have to be ever vigilant but it is worth the persistence to keep our thought gardens clear of the bad seeds and weeds that try to choke out all the good we are and have.

How grateful we can be that we are already made by Good.  Let us be grateful enough not to let evil plant seeds of sin and discontent into our hearts and thoughts.  Let us be the Good that we are.

A grateful heart a garden is,
Where there is always room
For every lovely, Godlike grace
To come to perfect bloom.
A grateful heart a fortress is,
A staunch and rugged tower,
Where God's omnipotence, revealed,
Girds man with mighty power. 

Hymn 3 vs 1, 2 Christian Science Hymnal

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