The music is still right here
Whatever the picture may be, our innate harmony and wholeness as God’s children can’t be touched – and this realization brings healing.
When I was a music major in college, my senior recital was recorded. Years passed, and one day I found the tape and played it back, expecting to hear beautiful music. Instead, it was plodding and mediocre at best.
I was tempted to feel disappointed. But when I examined the machine that was playing the tape, I found a switch that could adjust the speed of the tape. When I moved it to the default position, glorious music suddenly filled the room! It had been there all along – and no distorting of the tape speed had harmed, changed, or touched the music itself.
This experience came to mind one day when I wasn’t feeling well. As I reached out to God in prayer, what came to me was, “The music is still right here!”
I thought of that situation with my recital tape and knew I could relate that lesson to my health and harmony. It’s all right here, I reasoned. God is the source of all harmony and rhythm, and our creator. We are His spiritual offspring – the perfect spiritual effect of the perfect cause, God. We are always at one with our Father-Mother, God.
The need, then, was to release the “lever” of the little ego, or mind-set, that would distort the beautiful truth of our natural position of oneness with God. As I yielded to the spiritual fact of our “default” status of oneness with God, the pain melted away.
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, assures us in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” “Harmony in man is as real and immortal as in music. Discord is unreal and mortal” (p. 276).
Sometimes it may seem to take longer to yield up the notion that inharmony – including illness – is an accurate depiction of reality. But the divine message of Christ, Truth, is always present to help us do just that. And in the process, what comfort there is in knowing that the music – the goodness and wholeness of our nature as God’s children – is always right here.
Adapted from the March 27, 2023, Christian Science Daily Lift podcast.