A glad heart makes a happy face.
Is your face happy today? Are you radiating joy? You can.
Count your blessings. Remember all you have to be grateful for, which is much.
Let the joy of feeling grateful well up within, and soon your face will be smiling big. It can’t help it!!
A grateful heart is a glad heart, and a glad heart puts a smile on one’s face. A big one!!
The obvious hymn to complement this wonderful joyful message from Evan is:
Hymn No. 3: Thank you Evan.
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.
A grateful heart a temple is,
A shrine so pure and white,
Where angels of His presence keep /
Calm watch by day or night.
Grant then, dear Father-Mother, God,
Whatever else befall,
This largess of a grateful heart /
That loves and blesses all.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 3:1–4)
Thank you for reminding us of the hymn., Maggie. The beautiful words have always been a comfort to me.
Thank you Maggie for the hymn and thank you Evan . There is so much to be grateful for and it is so heartwarming to know that all our good comes from the ever presence of God ❣️
So glad to be able to visit Spirit View every day to exchange spiritual truths . …. This makes me smile!
One of my favorites ❤️
I love this hymn. Thank you everyone – joy and blessings to all today.
Coming to SpiritView is like Christmas, because the Christ Spirit is with us always,
but especially demonstrated with all of the Truth-gifts shared here! Thank you so very
much, dear Evan and One and All. Gratitude for you .. all … is one of my most very
special thanks-givings and the love I feel when reading these inspiring posts is so
very heartfelt. A wonderful way to start, middle and end a day … filled with inspiration.
Thank you, Carol! to describe your joy and dedication
From morning all the way to the end of the day!
Awww.. Thank you, dear Pp. I love what Rose wrote, below …
“Giving away a smile increases our supply of them”.
Here’s one – and an eternity of them to all
: )
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“Stand with gratitude” by Robert A. Charbeneau, from the January 21, 1985 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2cdt8kg698w?s=copylink
Thank you J…beautiful .B.x
Thank you all for this powerful blog and the hymn and the article by Mr Charbeneau. It is a perfect daily treatment. In the stress and strain of daily mortal life gratitude is often forgotten. This article is such a perfect reminder.
Love the Hymn No. 3, Maggie and great message today. On winter
days when outside gardens are covered with a blanket of snow and very
cold, where plants are in dormancy, but never out of spiritual beauty, it
is nice to have indoor plants that brightens and loves and blesses us all.
Usually when I count my blessings I make a list of material things. Although I am truly grateful for those “ things”, I am most grateful that God’s blessings are infinite and spiritual.
I can be grateful for a loving husband because God is infinite Love, and Love is expressed in a marriage. It is the same for all things in this human existence for which I am grateful. There is absolutely no limit to God, and as we understand that our gratitude can grow and be enrichened.
As we focus on the good, it appears to grow and we see more and more of what has actually always been there. At times it may go unnoticed but the “eternal, the good and the true” (as discussed in a recent SV) are always present and available. Lots to smile about! Giving away a smile increases our supply of them. Thank you and Love to all.
Thank you Rose for your loving and so true Inspiration!♡
Thank you very much, Evan, and I am happy and I’m filled with gratitude to God. However, I can’t count my blessings from God which I graciously received from my Father Mother Love my whole life till now.
The first verse from hymn 199 is so nicely simple and so true:
Now thank we all our God
With grateful hearts and voices
Who wondrous things hat done,
In whom the World rejoices;
Who from the days of yore
Hath blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love
And still is ours today.
It’s harmonized by F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
And the second verse is equally wonderful:
We know our gracious God
Through all our life is near us,
To fill our thoughts with light,
To strengthen us and cheer us;
From His eternal care
We never shall remove,
Encompassed by His Grace,
Enfolded in His love.
I’m thankfull and happy for every improvement of spiritual understanding. Presently I’m happy that I got a new very suitable table for my livingroom. The old one was damaged. And I’m deeply grateful to God that He sent my cousin to get this table with his car and bring it to my home. The whole procedure was very harmonious. Divine Love managed it perfectly!♡
Thank you all for your inspired comments.
With much love to you all and a happy weekend! ❤️
A happy weekend to you, too, dear Uta and to all. How lovely the table worked
out with your cousin’s help. It is always a great feeling when things go harmoniously
like that.
The hymn you mentioned fits so well with the topic and thank you for sharing it.
Thanks very much, dear Carol. I love this hymn a lot as it reminds me always hiw very grateful we can be for God’s steady blessings and care!
I’m very convinced that it was God providing me so satisfying with the table. I needed a new table urgently. So I found one via Ebay but I didn’t have somebody who could pick it up and bring it to me. I don’t anymore have my car. Then I got a call from my cousin that he wants to visit me and help me what I need. So I asked him whether he could pick up this table for me. He agreed, and it couldn’t be more clear that he was the angel God sent me.
Am I happy we have CS today to study and work with.