When someone came to Jesus in the middle of the night and asked him about being born again,
this is what Jesus said:

(The man's name is Nicodemus, and he was a ruler of the Jews, and was inspired to visit Jesus in the middle of the night so he wouldn't get in trouble from his peers, see the book of John, Chapter 3)

“I can guarantee this truth: No one can see God’s kingdom without being born from above.”

Nicodemus asked him, “How can anyone be born when he’s an old man?
He can’t go back inside his mother a second time to be born, can he?”

Jesus answered, “Flesh and blood give birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual. Don’t be surprised when I tell you that all of you must (already) be born from above.”

A wonderful way to receive fresh inspiration about how this is relevant to your life, is to ask God more about this concept, and to study it for yourself in John 3:1-8.

Dear Friend,

Would you like to know more about spiritual existence?

In her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, Mary Baker. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, describes an experience about how she felt when she discovered that God is Spirit, and caught a glimpse of the way Jesus healed. 
 
She says, “Thus it was when the moment arrived of the heart's bridal to more spiritual existence. When the door opened, I was waiting and watching; and, lo, the bridegroom came! The character of the Christ was illuminated by the midnight torches of Spirit. My heart knew its Redeemer... Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science.” (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 23.)
 
After having a similar experience, where my heart also "knew its Redeemer," I was inspired to learn more about The Christ and Christian Science.

Although I had been born and raised in Christian Science, I realized that I had to really deepen my understanding of what the Science of the Christ actually is, and to really make it my own, not just something my parents and grandparents had relied upon. 
 
Having my own encounter with The Christ gave me a renewed sense of Life and purpose, and opened the door of my thought to the possibility that the eternal life promised by Christ Jesus could actually be a present reality, not just theoretically, but that I could participate in this Life right here and right now. 
 
To me, that was worth living for! It made me feel born again, and I yearned to discover more about spiritual existence for myself. Another effect of this “new birth” moment was that a desire to drink socially (because I felt insecure, like I didn't fit in and needed to join in on what others were doing to fit in and feel better) this false behavior, which I knew was not a part of me, completely and naturally fell away, never to return.

I realized that I did belong. I belong to God. We all belong to God--Divine Life, Truth, and Love.
 
While the sorrow and insecurity that I had been feeling did return at the changing of the seasons, I no longer felt I was battling it alone. 
 
Instead of attending a grief support group or calling a counselor,  I reached out to my best friend, and she gave me the names of several Christian Science practitioners whom she had relied upon for healing. 
 
As soon as I sent an email to a practitioner asking for help, I  felt totally enveloped by a feeling of God’s tender love and care for me and my family. A few days afterwards, I heard a still, small voice, with the idea that I should apply for class instruction to learn more about how I can pray for others using this power of Divine Love. It took me awhile to feel worthy of this step, as I didn’t feel deserving of it, yet the voice persisted until I obeyed. 
 
The tender lesson, that “Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Bake Eddy, p. 264) is a refuge and a comfort, and I am learning that it is only understood through the Christ, Truth.     
 
After studying quietly on my own for a few months, I realized it was time to go back to church.  My family and I had been attending a local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, but after my loved one passed away, sleeping in on Sunday mornings had seemed more appealing to me. The sweet welcome home that we received when we walked back in the doors after being absent was just another proof of God’s tender love and care, and further proof that to me, Christian Science is “the way, the truth, and the life,” as Jesus promised his teaching would be.
 
This made me realize that I really wanted to help others who may be suffering with grief or depression through sharing Christian Science and my understanding of how God’s love heals. 
 
It’s powerful, healing love is the Truth! 
 
Feeling this kind of love, spiritual and divine, and identifying yourself with it, can inspire you to want to live a purely spiritual life, too! 
 
By living spiritually, in the way Christ Jesus inspired others and taught us to live, brings true satisfaction, and blesses not only you, but everyone you know!
 
Divine Love, God’s continuous unfoldment to all mankind, is immeasurable, infinite, eternal, and always available everywhere and to everyone. And it is available right now to you!
 
Love,
Lindsey

Dear Friend,

Have you ever reached out to God in desperation, wondering if there was any hope for you to be saved out of a heart-breaking situation, and the Christ came immediately, rescued you, and answered your prayer?

I have, and it was the most life-changing experience that I have ever had.

It was a warm, sunny day, and I was on a paddleboard out in the middle of the lake, thinking about how I was going to survive another day, and wondering if this life was truly worth living. I had suddenly and unexpectedly lost someone very dear, and felt overwhelmed by grief and torn between earth and heaven. It actually felt as if I had one foot “on earth” and one foot “in heaven” and that someone was playing tug-o-war with my arms, yanking them back and forth. Not wanting to give in to this feeling and give up hope, and wanting to be strong for my family, I knelt down on my knees to pray.
 
Have you ever done that?
 
Right there in the middle of the lake, I kneeled down on that paddle board, looked up to heaven, and issued my heart’s desperate plea to God. Surprisingly, it came in the words of a poem that is very dear to me and have known since I was a little girl:

“Father, where Thine own children are, I love to be.” 
 
What happened next is an experience I will never forget. 
 
The words to the rest of that wonderful poem, “Christ my Refuge,” by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, which also has a beautiful melody and is in the Christian Science hymnal, filled my heart and mind. 
 
O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet,
whose measures bind
The power of pain. 
 
I got up off my knees and started paddling again. My joy-filled heart now was singing the hymn out loud to anyone who could hear it (mainly turtles, a heron, and some ducks). A sweet sense of serenity enveloped me, and God’s love shined down from above, covering the lake with the light of its golden glow. Instead of feeling tugged in two opposing directions, I knew that I could confidently yield to Life, God. I felt an irresistible pull towards what I can only describe as the presence of the Christ. I was saved.
 
It seemed to me that this must be how the disciples felt when they realized their best friend Jesus was walking towards them, on top of the waves, removing all fear and doubt, and drying all their tears. (See Matthew 14:24-32)
 
My tears had dried, too. A sense of sorrow and insecurity was replaced by a feeling of safety, security, and even joy. As another beautiful hymn describes, my heart was singing,
I had found “the way.” 

And you can find it, too.

God says, "I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, says the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Again, I will build you, and you shall be built." 
(Jeremiah 30:17; 31:3-4).

Love,
Lindsey
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“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment; the moment when a person knows forever more who they are.”
----Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentine author 

"The new birth is not the work of a moment. It begins with moments, and goes on with years; moments of surrender to God, of childlike trust and joyful adoption of good; moments of self-abnegation, self-consecration, heaven-born hope, and spiritual love. 

Time may commence, but it cannot complete, the new birth: eternity does this; for progress is the law of infinity."

-Mary Baker Eddy
(Mis. 15:13–20)

"Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self-knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity, and origin. Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question."
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
(SH 462:20–24)

"He who gains self-knowledge, self-control, and the kingdom of heaven within himself, within his own consciousness, is saved through Christ, Truth."
-Mary Baker Eddy
(My. 161:14–16)

"And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel."

(Luke 1:76–80)