Are you concerned about taking off or putting on weight? This subject is often an obsession with many people. Answers on how to attain perfection in the physical form are shouted at us from all directions. But do their solutions of diet foods, pills, and mechanical devices help us gain a better expression of harmony and health? If they took thought off the temporal, human condition and put it on the spiritual, eternal condition of man, the answer would be yes. But they do just the opposite. They make us think constantly of our bodies. And focusing thought on matter can never bring healing through the power of Spirit, God. Christian Science takes an entirely different view of this problem of weight.
Mrs. Eddy writes: "One says: 'I take good care of my body.' To do this, the pure and exalting influence of the divine Mind on the body is requisite, and the Christian Scientist takes the best care of his body when he leaves it most out of his thought, and, like the Apostle Paul, is 'willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.'"Science and Health, p. 383
How can we follow Paul's advice? We can train ourselves to take off materiality and to put on spirituality—take off the human concept of man, saddled with imperfections, and put on the divine idea, man's flawless being as the child of God.
