You're going to be here. A prayer for those still lost by Meg Bucker, read by Ellie Johnson.

Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being mind, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind, Philippians 2, one through

two. The grass crept in on both sides of us until we had put one foot directly in front of the

other in order to follow the rapidly

disappearing trail. Overgrown and clearly less traveled than the other routes on the

trail map, we stayed the course. Alone, in the middle of the northern Michigan woods on a trail beep

alone in the middle of the northern Michigan woods on a new trail with my two daughters

I started to see imaginary eyeballs popping out of every bit of brush.

We dodged Poison Ivy, oak, and who knows what else.

Panicked and uncertain we were even on a trail anymore.

Eventually, we joined up with the main trail and decided never to venture off of it again.

When it comes to hiking in the woods, maps do not exceed experience in importance.

We are not all traveling the same trail through the woods of life,

but most of us recognize the fearful feeling of being lost.

There are many of us who have not yet learned how unreliable our own internal compasses,

the difficulty of the condition of the trail in different seasons.

Others of us have logged miles of hiking experience, surviving close calls and celebrating victoriously new discovered

views.

In Christ, we are to show compassion, care, and respect for all the people God has placed in our

lives, even the ones still naively lost in the forest of their own lives.

As the family of God, believers are to seek peace, exude forgiveness, and be relatable.

We're just as messed up as the guy on the other trail.

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