Lost - Found - And
I’m sure you, like me, can tell by the change in the air, the amount of sunlight, that summer is leaving us again. This ease into autumn is a gift that triggers reflection on change, on time, on journeys ended and begun. I’m reading a memoir by Kathryn Schulz entitled Lost & Found . She divides her small book into three sections: “Lost” – “Found” – “And.” I relish those divisions, especially the last one. How much of our lives is filled with “and” – we think we are headed one way and then we realize we need to rethink; we are absolutely sure we are right about an issue or a plan and then something reaches our mindset and we realize we need to rethink. I hear echoes of the Gospels in these three words…how many encounters of Jesus embrace “lost, found, and” – choices laid out before cured lepers and rich young people and sophisticated Pharisees and those possessed by the evils of their day. ...