A Collect based on Luke 2:41-end
God who we sometimes leave behind,
Your family journeyed towards home until they had a sense of your absence and searched for you; discovering you anew after 3 days.
Help us understand that each day, each moment when we rush towards the comfortable places we already know well, we often leave you behind.
And, it is when we travel alert to your presence and to your absence that we, like you, grow in wisdom and favour.
Amen
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With peace and best wishes, Steve