Lost

Have you ever lost something of value?

Maybe to was worth a lot of money.

Maybe it was sentimental.

This week I lost a ring...my birthstone ring.

I'm not much for jewelry, but this was the first real piece of jewelry my parents gave me.

I have been looking for it everywhere.  It was on my finger in the morning and I noticed it was missing when I got home for lunch.  It fell off and I didn't even notice.  I keep watching the ground in hopes that the suns rays will catch a glimmer and my ring will magically appear.
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We’re all searching for something…love…friendship…meaning…____________ (fill in the blank).

God hopes that the glimmer of His Son's light through the darkness will catch our eye and lead us to Him.  For as hard as I search for a lost ring, or we search for something missing in our lives, God searches for us.  He won’t leave any of us behind.  I’m grateful for that, because even though I live “inside the lines” those lines can often lead me astray.

Matthew 18:12-14

 ¹²"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? ¹³And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. ¹⁴In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.