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I know my phone keeps a record of how much I search and where and what I search. I’m not too keen on that kind of surveillance but I do like the ease with which I’m able to seek after and find information.  And I’ve grown to appreciate the way that my past searches pop up as suggestions for my future forages.

The searching theme pops up repeatedly in the teaching of Jesus. But he’s never focussing on our human search for the divine. Instead, as in today’s gospel, it is Jesus who is searching.

And it’s me who is lost.

It took me a while to feel comfortable saying that since I’d always thought of myself as one of the ninety nine (mostly) good sheep.

But now I know the joy of knowing that the real searcher is not me but Jesus who is constantly searching for me.

And because he is constantly searching for me I can never be lost.

I simply let myself be found.

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Take an initiative and send me a date time and place for a FFF cafe-catchups. john@fff.org.nz. I’ll advertise these on each morning’s post throughout Advent.

TODAY Devonport
Tuesday 9th December 5 00pm
Devon on Devonport Wharf. Kate

Lower Hutt
Wednesday 10 December 10am
Shine Cafe
2 Waterloo Rd, Hutt Central. Catherine

New Plymouth
Wednesday 10 December 10.30am
Stumble Inn
200 Mangorei Road
New Plymouth. Joan

Christchurch
Monday 15 December 10.00am
Moko Bush Inn Centre
Waimairi Road, Christchurch. Trish

New Plymouth
Thursday 18 December 1.30pm
Stumble Inn
200 Mangorei Road
New Plymouth. Joan