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If Thy Stomach Offends Thee

Weight loss for me isn't about beauty or health.

by Lisa Ann Cockrel | posted 12/01/2005 12:00AM

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Instead, I want a body that will allow me to better engage the world God put me in—to be able to take long walks through Manhattan with my best friend, to spend a day gardening with my mom, to play a game of pickup basketball with my brothers.

For all the sensory pleasure God provides through food, there is more of his creation to be experienced. I'm trying to trade some of the known (Christmas cookies) for some of the unknown (a bike ride along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive). I want to move from that which takes me into myself to that which promotes a loving relationship with God's world and the people in it.

I think that's pretty much what the Christian life is about— whether you're fat, skinny, or somewhere in between.

Lisa Ann Cockrel is associate editor of Today's Christian Woman.

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