In Jr. High our church youth choir put on a musical every year. One year we covered these 3 stories in a nice neat package. I can still remember Todd playing the role of the lost sheep while Jake went looking for him. Jake wore they typical Sunday School shepherd's outfit (bathrobe with spare cloth tied over his head) while Todd wandered.
Todd wandered....on all fours, between and under the pews. Crawling inbetween the legs and purses of the congregation - under one pew and across the aisle to disturb the next section. The congregration jumped and laughed and was quite startled. And so were we...Todd had not done this during the dress rehearsal. As he wandered, we had to keep singing about the lost sheep without breaking into laughter ourselves, even though half the congregation was in stictches. And poor Jake had to walk around and pretend to look for this sheep - but it was fully obvious to everyone exactly where the sheep was - he was next to the legs of the woman who just shrieked.
At the end of each song (the lost coin, lost sheep, lost son) we sang a song entitled "Let's have a party!!" About the joy of finding what was lost.
These memories and that song are important to me...because sometimes I forget to revel in the joy. Let's have a party! let's make a racket! Let's disturb the congregation and crack up laughing! We have great joy....and I for one need to celebrate more.
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