From the depths of my heart I wish to express gratitude...

Elisabeth Wagner

From the depths of my heart I wish to express gratitude because Christian Science, which heals physically and mentally, came into my life.

I am deeply grateful for being freed from the painful recollection of the loss of my home, which occurred in 1913. For ten years I, and those around me, suffered under the weight of this recollection. The awful sense of homesickness, which filled me with bitterness and hatred toward the one who had caused the loss, made me incapable of building up again; but in 1919, when I was near desperation and could think of nothing else, I was led to Christian Science. Before I knew of Christian Science I did not believe in any God; and I did not want to know anything about a God who sent me this suffering. Then I learned that God is divine Love, and that He does not send suffering. I often thought that I was free from this error, but the experiences of the previous years, and the homesickness, which returned again and again with increased force, tried to rob me of what I had won.

At the end of 1923, I again stood on the edge of an abyss. I was losing my faith and surrendering myself to the old despair and bitterness. But God had not deserted me, and was again stretching forth His saving hand He led me to a practitioner, and when I was supported by her faithful and never failing help, the shadows of the past disappeared in a short time. They yielded to the understanding that our home is in God, and I learned to understand what it means to be "present with the Lord." In a few weeks the gloomy thoughts were changed into glad and joyous ones, and intense suffering and heavy burdens fell from me. Within a year I was free from the ballast of wrong thinking, and I felt my physical and spiritual strength increasing. I am happy that, according to my desire, I am privileged to use this regained strength in the service of this wonderful teaching. I am grateful for membership in a branch church and in The Mother Church. I am inexpressibly grateful for the understanding that the real man cannot be influenced or led by any person, but is governed by God alone.

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