Chris's Musings

I'm looking forward to sharing more... 2 months of dual-blogging coming up :) http://chrisinestonia.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-official-im-going-back.html

"... or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one.   Does she not light up a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?  And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, 'rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin'  In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents." - Jesus (Luke 15:8-10) I know that most of us who have been around church for a while have heard the triplet "lost" parables in some way, shape or form in the time we've been around church.  Usually, we skip over this one (and the one about 99 sheep) to go to the "lost (or prodigal) son" parable.  But I always have read these parables and thought "that's cool" - God is searching after me and when I'm found him and the angels are really happy.   Oooooo ... warm feeling.   Yesterday, I got a glimpse of the meaning of "rejoice with me" on...