Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Jeff Parrott.

Everyone is familiar with that typical lost and found pile. You know, the pile of items that

contains just a smattering of misplaced or discarded objects.

But if you want to see the largest collection of lost and found items in the world, you can

hop in a plane or a train or an automobile and head to Scottsboro, Alabama.

There you'll find unclaimed baggage.

Unclaimed baggage is not a typical lost and found pile

with the smattering of items. It is a 50,000 square foot facility that holds and sells a plethora

of lost objects. Since the year 1970, unclaimed baggage has bought lost and forgotten luggage from airlines

and resold them at discounted prices.

Unclaimed baggage has such an extensive collection of lost items that the items themselves

are truly surprising and bizarre.

They've recovered gold-plated golf clubs, a bionic knee, a beekeeping suit, a robot,

and even a meteorite that's hundreds of years old. The thing that really stands out is how

many items at unclaimed baggage cannot be put in the category of junk. There are things there

that really matter, things that have value, things that

tell a story. These items are lost, but they should have a location. They should belong somewhere,

with someone, but instead they're in the world's biggest lost and found pile, dislocated and neglected by their owners.

It is, of course, one thing to recognize the lostness and dislocation of objects.

It's quite another to recognize the lostness and dislocation of people, to see it within ourselves.

Maybe you're in a stretch of life where you feel

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