As a child growing up in Berryville, Arkansas, we didn’t watch very much television. We received one channel, the NBC affiliate out of Springfield, Missouri. When a favorite yearly event would take place, such as The Wizard of Oz or the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, it was cause for great excitement in my small world. Unfortunately, my parents insisted I accompany them to the Thanksgiving morning service at a nearby Christian Science Society. As a participant in our local marching band, I was eager to see bands from all over the country in this annual event. But alas, after a few minutes of the televised parade, we would be out the door for a dreaded day with old people. While that’s the way I felt decades ago, now things have turned around. I can’t think of many things I’d rather NOT do than watch the Macy parade, either in person or on television. Now I love the study of divine metaphysics, particularly in the company of old people! I hope each and every one of you are doing exactly what you’d like to do today. Happy giving of thanks, today and every day!
“The ego makes illusions. Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. Truth never makes attack. It merely is. And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.
“We would not bind the world again today. Fear holds it prisoner. And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. Father, we would release it now. For as we offer freedom, it is given us. And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us.”
A Course in Miracles W-332.1:1–2:6
“The human mind, imbued with this spiritual understanding, becomes more elastic, is capable of greater endurance, escapes somewhat from itself, and requires less repose. ... It raises the thinker into his native air of insight and perspicacity."
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 128
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