[Possible props may include a coin, a sheep, or you may want to end with a witness to one who has gone through a “wrong turn” and has “re-turned” to God.]

When I was young, there wasn’t a day that went by that the loudspeaker in the department store or the mall wouldn’t inevitably blare out the name of some lost child, tearfully waiting at customer service for his or her mother to find and rescue him or her.

The blaring loudspeaker was every parent’s relief. If it was their child, their frantic searching for the child in and out of every aisle was over. If it was not their child, there was a rejoicing that the lost had been found.

When child gets lost in a store…… when a driver takes a wrong road and gets lost in the woods without gas….. when you misplace your glasses and can’t see…..  …