A group of boys and girls were trying to find a game to play. “Why don’t we play Hide and Seek?” asked Billy. “No way,” said Sally. “I’m afraid I’ll get hid and nobody will be able to find me. Then everybody will go home and I will be lost.”

“Lost and Found.” It’s such a common predicament that the classifieds run a special section for it each day. In Nashville this weekend somebody lost a small, black, fluffy, female cat near Thompson Lane. Somebody else found a silver-grey Schnauzer Terrier dog around the Coronada Condos. Lost and found is a part of our lives everyday.

To be lost is to be misplaced, mislaid, or missing. To be lost is to be where you are not supposed to be. Jesus was concerned about the lost and found. He was so concerned that he told a trilogy of stories about lost thi…