August 26, 2020

Dear people,

Honestly, when I picked up this folder from the bottom of the piles on my desk, I wasn’t sure what I’d find. It was plainly marked “Possible items next posting Assoc website.” But the last two postings before and after our Association had been so dynamic and alive. Reading the Century book seemed to have awakened us as an Association.

Many of you had caught and connected with a distinctly different feeling about how naturally healing seemed to flow through the lives of those early workers. You had shared thoughtful, moving statements about the forever place of healing in Science. You were on fire! Was there really anything more left to say? 

I shouldn’t have worried! You have here in hand the next posting – nine new items that seem like a perfect sequel to what’s gone before. As I started to look through these “leftover” items, they began to arrange themselves. One item brought spiritual illumination to another. Not only did it refer to a healing from the Century book itself, but you were reminded of an unquestionably powerful healing of your own or of a family member or of a child. There was no longer any particular value in trying to categorize whether it was a response to the assignment or fruitage. It was all one thing – about Mrs. Eddy’s frequently expressed need above all for more healing in regard to church than anything else.

Far from running out of things to say, far from nearing an end, we are a Church being shown by God His fresh view and the energy and joy of Her new beginnings.

With heartfelt love,
Skip

Allison W. Phinney, C.S.B.