God's love in every key

Can a saxophonist pray through the horn? That's the topic for a chapter on prayer. The answer, as you can imagine, is a qualified "yes."

Here is a YouTube clip from John Coltrane's masterwork, "A Love Supreme." After an expansive saxophone solo (concluding at 4:54), Coltrane returns to the four-note bass line ("a love su-preme, a love su-preme"). It becomes a chant in all twelve keys. Give it a listen: 

Here is what scholar Lewis Porter of Rutgers has to say about that:

Coltrane's more or less finished his improvisation, and he just starts playing the 'Love Supreme' motif, but he changes the key another time, another time, another time. This is something unusual. It's not the way he usually improvises. It's not really improvised. It's something that he's doing. And if you actually follow it through, he ends up playing this little 'Love Supreme' Theme in all 12 possible keys.

To me, he's give you a message here. First of all, he's introduced the idea. He's experimented with it. He's improvised with it with great intensity. Now he's saying it's everywhere. It's in all 12 keys. Anywhere you look, you're going to find this 'Love Supreme.' He's showing you that in a very conscious way on his saxophone. (Link: https://www.npr.org/2000/10/23/148148986/a-love-supreme) 

The supreme love of God in every key, in every place, ready to be found. Imagine that.