Testimony of Healing May 9, 1970 Issue

All my working years have been spent handling food either in...

Eileen D. Maurice

All my working years have been spent handling food either in bakeries, restaurants, or the steward's departments of various organizations. I was overweight for years and very conscious of it, but I made feeble excuses to avoid facing up to the problem.

One afternoon while sitting under a hair dryer in a beauty salon, I was reading Miscellaneous Writings by Mrs. Eddy. Something I read made me stop and think of some of the heavy baggage of material sense I could discard. I found myself repeating the "Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind," beginning on page 115 of Science and Health, where Mrs. Eddy lists under First Degree certain physical qualities I knew it was right for me to part with. The list reads as follows: "Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear, depraved will, self-justification, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, death." The words "passions and appetites" kept recurring to me. When I reached home, I looked these words up in the Concordances to her writings and continued for several days to ponder the passages where these words occurred.

I realized that I was losing weight, because my clothes were beginning to look too big for me. While doing this prayerful study and correcting my thought along these lines, I found that I never wanted to eat between meals, that I was satisfied with much smaller servings, and that I had stopped thinking and saying I didn't care how fat I was. In about a week I exchanged my size 44 uniforms for size 38 and am now wearing size 34. This is cause for much gratitude.

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