Testimony of Healing May 25, 1992 Issue

A good friend suggested I do something about my weight

Dallas Fuentes with contributions from Louis Fuentes

A good friend suggested I do something about my weight. She reminded me it wasn't long before that we had worn the same dress size. I explained that I was doing something—I was not dieting or calorie counting but turning to prayer to bring about a needed adjustment in thought.

In Miscellaneous Writings Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The body is governed by mind; and mortal mind must be improved, before the body is renewed and harmonious,—since the physique is simply thought made manifest." I prayed earnestly to be shown how to "improve" thought, to recognize what I needed to eliminate from consciousness in order to be better governed by the one true divine Mind. There was much mental tillage that had to occur. Like a fastidious gardener who painstakingly removes waste and weeds from soil before planting tender bulbs, I had to remove the weeds of limited and mistaken concepts about God and man that seemed to be rooted in consciousness. This happened quite naturally as my grasp of the spiritual truth of being—that I was right then God's perfect spiritual likeness—grew stronger.

Through prayer I perceived that I'd been indulging in what could be called gluttonous thinking. With this revealed, I was able to take corrective action. I realized that gluttonous thinking is not limited to thoughts about food, and each day I watched for and reversed any such thoughts. For example, one day while I was requisitioning supplies at work, I realized I didn't need the entire box of pens I'd requested. I only needed one. How joyful I was to have been alert to what was really just another gluttonous thought—and to do something about it.

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