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I'm Keith Simon.

One night, my wife and I were at the Little League Baseball parks near our house with our four kids.

Our oldest was playing the late game and when the game finished,

we were getting ready to go home. We noticed that one of my son's friends, a kid named Alan,

was looking around for his parents but couldn't find him, which was odd. We knew his parents a little

bit and they were great people who were always there at his games whoever was

in charge that night was beginning to turn off the lights all around the ball fields and not being able

to find his parents alan was a little bit scared we said to him alan do you need a ride home and he said

well i don't see my parents so i guess so christina and i loaded up our kids and Alan in our minivan and started

back to our house. When we were on her way, we called his house and his mom answered the phone.

I said, hey, we've got Alan in our car and we're bringing him home and she was absolutely shocked.

You see, they had been at the ball game with their kids. I think they had five, and they had no idea that Alan hadn't come home with them. They thought he was at the house, and he wasn't. He was with us at the ball field. She was very embarrassed, but I told her there was no need to be that it could happen to any of us. Well, I think of that story every time I read the story in Luke

2 of how Jesus' parents lost track of him for three days. Not three hours, three days. Let me read the

story and then we can dive into it and see what it has to teach us. Luke chapter 2 verse 41. Every year

Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover.

When he was 12 years old, they went up to the festival according to their custom. After the festival

was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem,

but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him

among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.

After three days, they found him in the temple court, sitting among the teachers, listening to them

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