Matthew 25:31-46 There is a story about two little girls in a small English village who decide to spend their summer searching for Jesus. The book is called The Trouble with Sheep and Goats. It’s a little bit of a mystery, but it’s a lot more than that. Something has happened in the village: a neighbor woman has gone missing. The girls are at an age where they can understand some of the adult conversation, but not enough to really know what’s going on. They gather that there is a story behind this disappearance, something all the adults in their street are in on, but they don’t know what it is. One of the girls, Grace, is mulling it over one day outside the church. When the priest approaches her, she asks: why do people get lost. She means it quite literally, but he hears it as a metaphorical question […]
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