I am deeply grateful for a healing of obesity that took place two years ago. I had halfheartedly considered this a problem over a period of years. But my needed spiritual awakening took place one December morning when I read an enticing ad from a health spa: "Are you a size 20? Be a size 16 by Easter."
I had to reject a momentary revulsion at the implied desecration of the spiritual meaning of Easter. And yet I was dismayed to become aware that I had been secretly yearning to achieve through Christian Science a reduction in size as the ad promised. The employment of material means such as hygiene, exercise, or dieting did not tempt me in the slightest.
That morning I did some really thorough study in the Concordances to Mrs. Eddy's writings. Mrs. Eddy says in the beautiful poem "The Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, p. 4):
