4 Nov 2021
Until She Finds Us
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Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’
So he told them this parable: ‘Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, “Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.†Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
‘Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, “Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.†Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
04 November 2021 @ 9:00 am
Thank you Ann … I love the way you’ve taken something familiar and imbued it with new vigour. ‘Until he/she finds it … ‘
Until God/Love finds us …
In one sense we are all already found but it can take a lifetime to wake up to that reality.
04 November 2021 @ 11:02 pm
Such hope. Such letting go ,in order to be found. Thank you.
05 November 2021 @ 12:47 am
Oh Ann, you’ve done it again! You have hooked my heart with hope. Thanks so much /- and love to Mike and Micah! Sorry we missed each other in Sparkill.
Love, Honora
05 November 2021 @ 1:20 am
Hope. Thank you.
05 November 2021 @ 3:17 am
Dear Ann, Thank you for starting us off on such an exciting path of thought and prayer.
“Where are you”? It is comforting to answer: “Here I am” and know you are heard. In the
way that is important I am spared the terrible fright of being truly lost. I am not in a maze
but a labyrinth; a difference pointed out to me. Thanks, Marlene
05 November 2021 @ 3:23 am
Thank you, professor, for voicing God’s hope for us in our lostness. Keep preaching!