THE LOST PAGE
A teacher asked her class to rewrite the parable of the Lost Sheep in a way what would make more sense to the members of the class. One student wrote: Suppose you had just finished typing a 100 page term paper. You had worked long hours in drafting it and typing it. You were exhausted but deeply relieved that the job was finished. You were collecting the page to staple them and bind them when you discovered that there was one missing. Imagine the horror, the panic, the sick feeling in the pit of the stomach. You drop the other 99 pages, and begin the anxious search. Everything in you is longing and aching for a sight of that missing page. Without that page the whole project falls limp.
Suddenly, there, away in a corner is the page. You excitedly push a chair aside, sending the 99 page on it flying in all direction and you are on your knees, reaching into the corner to touch and to grasp that page.
- That one page in the hand is a source of much greater joy and delight than the 99 pages scattered around the floor.
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