It has been my practice to spend the day before Association Day preparing in prayer. This past year, I had recently started a new job, and I was working on a project that had an important event scheduled for the Friday before the day. I knew that the prayerful preparation for Association needed to remain a priority.

I took the day off from my job and appreciated the opportunity to quietly prepare. The event for the project, that seemed so pressing, went on without me. Nearly a year later, an opportunity for me to complete a related, but even grander work project, presented itself. I was grateful for this opportunity to finish what I started and saw it as evidence of God’s unfoldment. As an Association member wrote me during this period: “We live in an age of Love’s divine adventure to be All-in-all” (My. 158:9-10.) This requires us to let go of self and mortal will, to gain more of divine Love’s perfect giving.