grew up as a Christian Scientist, but drifted away from the practice of it for a few years. But during her college years, Ms. Wolff says she rediscovered the church of her childhood. After a 19-year career as a retail executive, Wolff became a full-time Christian Science practitioner, and in 2003 she became a teacher of Christian Science. Today, she lives with her husband, Russ, in Arlington, Virginia, just a few miles from the nation's capital. I asked Wolff to tell me her thoughts on the magnitude and majesty of Christian Science.
Christian Science reveals spiritual reality as going on right here and now, rather than as the matter-based universe that we perceive through our physical senses. Through the lens of Christian Science, we experience reality from God's viewpoint, which constitutes the only true view of existence. This Science has awakened in me the ability to see myself and others from God's perspective—as pure and perfect ideas of infinite Mind.
Some years ago, I went to the symphony feeling burdened by a few cases I was treating through Christian Science that weren't readily responding to prayerful treatment. While listening to the music, I realized that I could see God's creation as analogous to notes in a symphony. The musical notes of a symphony represent ideas in the mind of the composer. But the notes don't decide their placement—rather, their existence in the symphony and their arrangement belong solely to the composer. I saw that God is the true composer of the entire spiritual creation and that we each serve as the notes in His universal symphony. As I reflected upon this idea, mere human contemplation gave way to divine understanding from God's perspective.
