"This year the Association was the experience to be born again"

Each year my heart was certainly filled with gratitude after the Association, but this year I felt even more grateful than usual. It was because the Association was given via Zoom, and we were allowed to listen to the recording afterwards. This meant so much to me as English is not  my mother tongue. I was able to listen to the address a few times! This was indeed a very special privilege. I felt that I was able to drink more fully this year.

Last year I was particularly touched by the words of Mr. McKenzie which you quoted: “…a subtle spiritualizing of matter – a putting of divine wisdom into human mind.”  Although I felt that this was what I had been doing, I was not perfectly sure what I should do to correct this. And this year, the address seems to me focused on this point. I feel I understood a little better this year what I should do. I felt that I should understand and practice the childlikeness, purity of heart, our inseparability from God, and laying down materiality more in our lives. I felt as if I understood what it means by new heaven and new earth as if for the first time. I felt I understood a little more about Christian Science for the first time! Thus, this year the Association was the experience to be born again!

Although I was not able to report anything specifically, I fully enjoyed reading A Century of Christian Science Healing which also taught me the above-mentioned points. Each account taught me how I should turn to God with much more confidence and a childlike heart.