Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is human or divine” (p. 213).
I’ve thought a good deal about that statement over the years. Harps have many strings, and they all should be in tune before they’re played. Nobody wants to hear music that’s out of tune. In prayer, when our thoughts are in tune with God and His Christ, wonderful things happen.
Several years ago I had an experience that gave me the opportunity to apply this idea to my own prayer. I woke up one day feeling too ill to go to work. I rarely stay in bed, even if I’m not feeling well, but on this particular morning I just stayed in bed reading that week’s Bible Lesson found in the Christian Science Quarterly. As I read, I drank in all the inspiration I could get from the Bible and Science and Health.
