The widow Gladys Dunn decided that she would be more out-going, especially in making visitors to her church feel welcome. The very next Sunday, she saw a man with whom she was not familiar, but she didn’t notice him until after the worship service had started. She vowed to give him a proper greeting after church.

As soon as the service had ended, she walked up to the sleep-looking visitor, who had only stayed awake in church with great difficulty. Extending her right hand to the man, she said, “Hello, I’m Gladys Dunn.” The gentleman replied, “I’m glad it’s done, too!”

That’s not quite the attitude God wants us to have toward worship! Jesus says that God is looking for people who want to worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24). We should say along with the Psalm writer, “I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”—Psalm 122:1.