Article September 19, 1977 Issue

Good-bye, Ol' Moonface

BENJAMIN N. COVINGTON

Carrying around too many pounds? Can you do anything about it? Yes. You can say good-bye to Ol' Moonface! How? Through consecrated prayer.

Are people really what they think they are? No. But we do seem to experience what we think. We're not in matter, but human thought is so focused upon matter that we seem to be in it—pounds of it. The way to demonstrate that we are not in matter—in too much of it or too little—is to intelligently keep thought off the material body. We become overweight because our thought is weighed down with a false sense of ourselves as material.

Count calories? That's looking at matter. Healing of obesity in Christian Science doesn't come through focusing thought on calories. Turning away from matter to God in prayer and viewing ourselves as His spiritual idea is the way to bring permanent healing. The calorie approach is not consistent with Christian Science.

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