Article July 17, 2006 Issue

Next in our biweekly series on how people have nurtured their public practice of Christian Science.

ANYONE CAN BE A HEALER

ALL THAT JAZZ—AND GOD

TAD BLAKE-WEBER——Brookline, Massachusetts

At That Time all that spoke to me was jazz. I was three years out of college and desperately needed release from a drug habit. Listening for God's guidance one day, I realized that A Love Supreme—John Coltrane's jazz tribute to God—was flowing from my CD player. Suddenly I was filled with gratitude for God, and at peace.

It came to me that, much as jazz musicians spontaneously express harmony through understanding music theory and its laws, we can find freedom from sickness and sin through understanding Christian Science, God's law of healing through the Christ.

In childhood I'd had healings through prayer of injured wrists, cuts, colds, homesickness, and, later in college, sprained ankles. But now after college, I struggled with the question "Is it God's power that heals?" I knew from experience that loving God brings spectacular results, but apparently I never grasped that God did the healing.

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