What consumes our time and energy shape our lives. When we lose something we tend to spend our time thinking about it and seeking it out. It can become all consuming and exclude every other activity. Accompanying this search are our feelings of guilt and loss. How could we have lost it in the first place? Where have I been where I might have lost it? Will my life ever be the same without it? Often these feelings accompany our ownership to material things but probably, more importantly, how we use these things to relate to others.
The search for the lost sheep and the lost coin, however, translates this into our search for God or rather God's search for us. There can be times when we can feel lost or abandoned by God. There can be a sense that we want God to find us but we cannot stop running or be being concerned about many things. God can become squeezed out little by little that we do not notice the absence until we encounter a deep emptiness inside which no material thing, no activity or project can fill. We can no longer be distracted from becoming present to the God who dwells within. The Good News is that God never abandons searching us out and leading us back to the place where we can celebrate our lives with joy!
The search for the lost sheep and the lost coin, however, translates this into our search for God or rather God's search for us. There can be times when we can feel lost or abandoned by God. There can be a sense that we want God to find us but we cannot stop running or be being concerned about many things. God can become squeezed out little by little that we do not notice the absence until we encounter a deep emptiness inside which no material thing, no activity or project can fill. We can no longer be distracted from becoming present to the God who dwells within. The Good News is that God never abandons searching us out and leading us back to the place where we can celebrate our lives with joy!
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