September 15, 2022
On Sunday, I began my sermon with a quote from Mary Poppins Returns. “You can’t lose what you’ve never lost,” she sings in the song Where The Lost Things Go. And then I invited us to consider three different ways we might learn from Jesus’ parables of the lost in Luke 15:1-10.
- Maybe the 99 sheep were supposed to follow the shepherd to find the one.
- Maybe we’re the ones who are lost.
- Maybe we have forgotten how and when to throw a party.
Today, I want to focus on what it means to get lost.
It’s a phrase that we use a few different ways in English.
I can think of someone in an argument, fed up with another the exclaim angrily, “Get lost!”
I remember times where I lost my sense of direction and very practically “got lost,” and could not find my way.
I also see someone at a concert or in a basketball game or at work or playing with a baby “get lost,” in the moment as they become fully present to what is at hand.
It is this final way of “getting lost,” that I see as one of the hopes I wouild love to plant. I hope you get lost. I hope you get carried away in the joy of being with someone you love. I hope you find yourself in a state of flow and focus as you live out your passion and God’s call for you. I hope that you lose your anxiety and worry even if it is for but a moment as you encounter the wonder and awe of creation.
One of the great things about getting lost is that when we arrive at the place where the lost things go, we often find Christ, our Good Shepherd already there. We find God searching every dust-covered corner of her home to look upon us again with love and joy and welcome us with a celebration.
Are we ready to follow Christ off the map?
Are we set to encounter God in the wilderness and at the place where lost things go?
Are we willing to go and get lost in the awe and wonder of God’s abundant love and steadfast presence that brings life to you and me and all of creation?
Grace & Peace,
Pastor Drew
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