When our children graduate from high school, and go off to college, we never know what they will do, who they will hang out with, what kinds of things they will experiment with, or how much they will study. Some of the things they do (like perhaps we did at that age) we really don’t want to know, and they wouldn’t want us to know either, any more than we wanted our parents to know all the things we were doing.
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You have heard the parable of the woman who lost a coin in her house, and searched for it until she found it, and then celebrated with her neighbors. (Luke 15).
Let me tell you a story: I’ll call it “the lost keys.” Last week I went up north to our cabin for a time of reading and reflection and sermon prep. On Sunday, after having a wonderful walk and lunch with my daughter Erica, her husband Jerry, and their puppy Burton, I headed north. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, and I drove north in my shorts and tee shirt. It was a wonderful drive.
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