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Good morning, boys and girls. Have any of you ever been lost? Were you scared? (Let them answer.) I imagine that if you were lost, your parents stopped whatever they were doing to search for you. They didn’t stop searching until they found you. I want to tell you a story this morning about a little boy your age, who was lost. The boy went with his parents to the shopping mall. As the family went from one store to another, there was a mix-up. The boy’s father thought the boy was with his mother. The boy’s mother thought the boy was with his father. The boy was with neither. He was lost.

The parents immediately st…