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After the meeting, Elias had stood in the foyer, drinking lukewarm punch from a tiny paper cup. He watched the families drift toward their cars. A toddler cried. Two teenagers whispered about a video game. A sister named Helen told him her husband’s chemotherapy was showing results.

He wrote a new email. Not to the elders, but to the only person he still spoke to from the congregation: a quiet, gray-haired brother named Mark who sat in the back row and never commented, just like Elias used to do. jw-org

Without her, the meetings felt like a play where everyone knew their lines except him. After the meeting, Elias had stood in the

He pressed send.

He typed slowly: “Dear Brothers, thank you for your concern. I am doing okay. I am just taking some time to think.” Two teenagers whispered about a video game

He remembered the last time clearly. It was a Tuesday night for the midweek meeting. He had sat in the second row from the back, his leather-bound Bible open to the book of Jonah. Brother Vance, an elder with a kind, tired face, had read the paragraph aloud. Something about “fleeing from one’s assignment.”

Elias thought about the jw.org bookmark in his hand. The website’s articles were always so clean, so certain. Why Does God Allow Suffering? How to Be Truly Happy. He had memorized those answers once.