The Help of Mind in the Performing Arts

A concert was about to begin. Alone in an offstage dressing room a symphony conductor waited for that moment when he would walk out to the podium, lift his hands, and the auditorium would be filled with orchestral sound.

But this man waited with anxiety. Preparations for this concert had been overshadowed by many problems. As one musician had put it, "Just about everything wrong that could happen has happened!" There had been an unusual number of absences from rehearsals. The orchestra had not been responsive to the conductor's attempts to draw his interpretations from them. Morale was low. Here, with only fifteen minutes or so before the curtain call, there seemed to be little that could be done to prevent disaster.

However, the conductor, being a student of Christian Science, recognized that his only course was to turn wholeheartedly and unreservedly to God in prayer, for all human efforts had failed. He prayed as he had learned to pray in Christian Science: to be shown the truth that even now was available to heal this situation.

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