Testimony of Healing July 14, 2008 Issue

WEIGHT LOSS WITH JOY

CHARLES RIDGWAY JOHNSON

Since childhood, when I attended a Christian Science Sunday School, I've found that prayer in Christian Science is indispensable to healing.

Six years ago I decided to pray about my desire to lose weight. My focus was to accept my spiritual perfection, rather than to try to attain physical perfection. I wanted to glorify God and grow spiritually—to see that divine law reveals our oneness with God (our actual being) and awakens us to the joy that is purely spiritual and innocent. This joy, I knew, had nothing to do with a material form.

I reasoned that acknowledging the allness of Spirit, God, denies the evidence and existence of matter, which effectively destroys the belief in material laws about eating and diet. In my motivation to glorify God's allness I found that I was not preoccupied with thoughts of eating to live or living to eat (see Science and Health, p. 388). My focus became less matter-based, and I realized that, contrary to what dietary and nutritional systems claim, I was not what I ate. As I prayed along those lines, I felt the peace and tenderness of the divine presence.

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