From a friend remembering the positive benefits that come from expressing gratitude:
We’re not grateful because our circumstances have changed. Our circumstances change because we are grateful.
Gratitude is a powerful reformer for the better. You can never express too much of it.
Amen!
Complaint is poverty – gratitude is RICHES!!!!
Thank you, Linda.
See hymn # 249 in the Christian Science Hymnal. My mother often quoted this in the ‘50’s and I thought it came from the Bible, but Cruden’s revealed no such quote. One Sunday we sang hymn 249. That was the aha! moment.
Just what the doctor ordered. Thank you Evan
“Gratitude in advance” from the January 17, 2006 issue of The Christian Science Monitor:
https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0117/p18s01-hfcs.html/?src=shared
Perfect article J….and please accept my gratitude for the many links you will source for us in the future. ❣️ B.x
J thank you for this article not least because it fits so well with Jen’s story.
Like others have said before and will no doubt say in future, thank you for the many wonderful articles you share here which are so helpful.
Dear BarbaraUK, your comment made me smile. And the same for you with your loving and insightful comments. xo
Dear Rubi, you’re so welcome. xo
what patience was expressed by the writer of the article. It is quite a goal for me. I cried thinking this is so hard. I have many opportunities to practice thank you for sharing I will get to work.
Such a wonderful article! Thanks so much J! And thank you, Evan, for another inspiring SpiritView!
“Gratitude in advance.” What a wonderful article and wonderful reminder. Thank you! Gratitude in advance or in hindsight never fails to bring smiles and positive thoughts.
“I am bankrupt in thanks…”
Hi Charlie, it’s impossible that you are bankrupt in thanks, as Gratitude is one of the many precious divine qualities of our Father-Mother God which His children cannot else but reflect naturally.
Charlie, do trust that you express this God given quality. You can be grateful all the time. God loves you and us all!
Gratitude opens the door for more blessings.
1 Thessalonians 5:16–18: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you”.
Grateful to you Evan for Spirit View and your unfailing guidance for our spiritual journey.❣️
I would like to relate how a change in gratitude changed my marriage.
As my husband and I progressed along in over 50 years of marriage we seemed to be developing some bad impatient and intolerable habits towards each other often ending up in arguments and ill feelings towards each other. The smallest things like toaster crumbs left on the counter for the next person to clean up would begin criticisms that who blow up to the biggest of accusatory arguments. It seemed that “love was no longer in the air” in our home. Both of us were feeling more that we were in the right and it was time the other knew it.
I began to think seriously that my spouse was no longer the man I married.
Then something happened that changed everything. I sat myself down and asked myself why I had fallen in love with this person in the first place. What did I see in him that I no longer could see. I started to make a little list and realized that I had not been expressing gratitude for this wonderful reflection of God that had come into my life so many years ago.
I decided to stop looking at this person as a flawed mortal and be so ever grateful for all he had done and was continuing to do for us both. I decided to stop seeing him as an old man that was drifting away.
I decided to be grateful for every expression of life he was portraying and soon after a few weeks of just gratefully noticing the little things he did for our home and our family things began to change. I realized that he was still the same man I had seen so
Many good qualities in 51 years ago. I just needed to be grateful.
Our home life was growing more loving and happier.
We began to appreciate each other’s company and our grown children noticed the two of us seemed a lot happier and were more pleasant to be around.
Today we again have a wonderful loving relationship again and although things like counter crumbs still appear once in awhile they are wiped up quickly with gratitude.
Gratitude was the first step to a wonderful healing.
Sometimes it is the only step that needs to be taken and the rest falls in place.
Wonderful Jen! The benefits of love and gratitude are boundless. I think if this healing were published it would resonate with many, many people….including myself. Thank you B.x
Thank you Jen for sharing this beautiful moving testimony. I am particularly taken with the fact that all you did to recover your marriage was to be grateful and hold on to knowing that this man was a child of God – not hours of soul-searching, praying, etc (nothing wrong with that of course). I can think of a number of situations currently in front of me that will benefit from your ideas. Thank you for your generosity and humility in sharing.
Beautiful explanation for restoring love within marriage, explaining all the day to day impact which loving each other is THERE for the long haul. Gratitude, expressing gratefulness for the things we do, and for noticing, what a simple task to turn things around. THANK YOU, it applies here too.
Thank you, Jen, for this powerful and honest account of healing. So very helpful!GRA
Thank you, Jen, for this powerful and honest account of healing. So very helpful!
I am reminded of the statement from The Manuel of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy:
“Gratitude and love should abide in every heart each day of all the years.” Page 60
Thank you, Evan and all❣️
Thank you Evan. Thank you to all of you.
Thankyou Evan, This is a Blessed message so Beautiful, The hymn A Grateful Heart a Garden is came to mind . pg.3 CS. hymnal. Thankyou SV family for all your Inspirations. Much Love to all
My phone, for some reason, wouldn’t log the SV page yesterday or this morning.
I find myself now catching up with two wonderful pages of Christmas love and humble gratitude.
Thank you, ALL, for your contributions and testimonials of Love expressed in your daily walks.
I had an beautiful, instantaneous healing of a relationship issue while listening to this article by Melissa Hayden. It is just sensational. ❣️
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/pwcs4qx9di?s=copylink
Thank you Patty for sharing this inspiring article!
The title of the article is Let The Grateful One Be Me. ❣️
Well, here we go again! Another spectacularly Healing SpiritView!
I believe that gratitude is the most powerful impetus to change. We have to remember that Jesus always gave thanks to God first.: before feeding thousands, before raising Lazarus from the dead, and in the garden of before His crucifixion…, his love and compassion was based on gratitude for His Always-Good God.
These are examples from our Master Christian, and His thankful prayer altered the subsequent lives of the world.
My experience is very similar to Jen’s, except mine is with my son. All I can say is that I had spent many years in a delusional state, believing that this beautiful, kind, gentle, intelligent, thoughtful, loving man was anything less than God‘s beloved child. When I realize that I was doing nothing but “malpracticing” him, began to think of him in the “right“ way— that he always wasexpressing God, in all his life— and our relationship shifted dramatically and wonderfully.. How grateful I am to know the God as revealed by Christ Jesus and further explained by Mary Baker Eddy.
And so I will continue to express gratitude to Evan, to kathy, to all the SpiritViewers who so lovingly share their ideas, then continue to radiate gratitude as I walk through life
I’d like to express gratitude for Evan and his daily guidance—starting with a monitory donation. I don’t see a place to click that says donate here! Please help me. I’d like to help SpiritView continue! I’m sure other grateful participants would love to join me!
Hi D. I looked it up. You can scroll down to the bottom of the link below where it says “Donate” and then a button for “Contribute”:
https://spiritview.net/about/
Thanks J.
And to Evan and everyone for this blog and all the supporting comments and experiences of healing that are shared. I’m so grateful for you all.
I also love this from Br.David Steindl-Rast: “It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It’s gratefulness that makes us happy,”
Thank you, dear Evan, for providing this wonderful place where we can
come and feel blessed by so much good that is shared here. It truly is
an oasis in a world that can seem so filled with mortal sense – that tries
to pull us down into a material grasp that is not conducive to our
spiritual progress and true Love for each other. The uplifting thoughts
are so helpful in taking focus away from the temptations of matter and
letting us be so grateful for all that is surrounding us with joy and Spirit.
It’s an oldie but a goodie! That hymn “ A grateful heart a garden is , where there is always room, for every loving Godlike thought to come to perfect bloom”
I always thought it sounded sort of corny but really it’s lovely and I think we all enjoy singing that one in church.