Have you ever been ungrateful?

What a question! I confronted it myself the other day. Actually, it was more like, “Are you grateful enough?” Or, “How grateful is enough?”

All leading to, Was I conscious of all the good there is, the good that we are surrounded by and provided with. Good is everywhere, in every corner, in every life. And even in the hardest of times, our lives can be transformed, healed, redeemed, revived, restored, knowing we can find the sunshine even in the storms.

As a matter of fact, that is an absolute requirement of our lives, – to find good. To look for it, discover it, recognize it, focus on it, and be grateful that we can see it.

There’s really not enough words to describe how essential “good discovering” is. It must be like those prospectors who searched for gold in the California hills. They knew what gold looked like. They focused their everything on mining for gold. Well, we should be mining for good, focusing our everything on discovering it.

Watch what happens when you mine your day with expectancy of good. You change your habits. You turn off negative TV, refuse to watch it, or be impacted by it. You choose good instead. You search the internet for that which is positive, not negative. You look for the good and expect to find it. You are simply grateful – in the grocery store finding an item you needed, or when a neighbor shows kindness, or for the telephone call of a friend.

Now then, for every grateful moment, add this. “Thank you, dear Father.” Or “Thank you, God.” Never be grateful for the smallest good without including gratitude to God, the giver of all good.

“…no good is but the good God bestows,” Mary Baker Eddy tells us. Actually, the whole sentence reads,”No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.” (SH 275:17-19)

Know that God bestows all true good. Harmony. Joy. Strength. Intelligent activity. Honesty. Love. Provision. Health. Safety. Refuse to think that good is just luck. Or that you have to hoard it. You don’t. It’s forever yours. But it’s helpful to know this. See the source of your good, love it. And live from this view. It’s the view of the possible.

God is your Life. This means, good is your life. Think, then, of the effect in your life when you recognize the source of the good that you are discovering. Get the source right, and gratitude becomes bountifully beautiful, because you will always find good to be from God. Unlimited. Abundant. Permanent. Based in Love, it is poured forth from the divine to Love’s beloved ideas.

Start this, and with the deepest gratitude to God, the very source of your being, you will find expectancy of unlimited joy and provision and harmony, because your deep love for God, good, transforms you and how you see, and what you are looking for. You look first with gratitude to God. You’ll be mining good everywhere, knowing it is true and available for everyone.

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