It can be dispiriting to see empty seats in a previously full church auditorium. And we might hope for newcomers to seek, find, and love Truth, so that those seats will be full once again. To be expectant of that and poised to welcome new inquirers is wonderful!
But let’s hold the same expectancy for those who sat in those seats before but, for whatever reason, drifted away—as did the author of “A return to the Comforter” in this week’s issue, which includes his return to church. Maybe our prayer can simply be to know that neither newcomers nor potential returnees can be kept from knowing and loving the one Comforter of us all—the divine Truth that is always with us—and serving the healing mission of the Church that Mary Baker Eddy founded to share news of that truth with the world.
