"Most Wanted" at the Marriott!

The Marriott Hotel in Quito went into alert mode.  Someone was missing!  Family members - especially the husband - searched high and low.  Not finding the missing person, they enlisted the help of the security staff, complete with a plan worked out to communicate, and re-group in the lobby when successful.

Meanwhile...I had gone into the underground parking lot (after using the bathroom), to get into our van - where others would be waiting for me. (Members of the extended Rhon/Ron family had met for the luscious Marriott Saturday-morning brunch, and were in the process of leaving.)  

I didn't see our van anywhere.  I waited for a while.  Maybe they'd gone to pick someone up and would come back.  Nothing.  I started walking back and forth to the several entrances...ending up in tears.  I was all alone.  Where were they?

Finally, after an eternity (maybe about 20 - 30 minutes), I heard "Becky!!!"  I rushed toward the sound of my husband's voice.  We fell into each others arms - he was almost in tears himself!  "Where were you?"  "I thought you had left me behind!"...

And then..."Becky...we weren't parked on this floor!"  Germán, as he desperately searched for me, finally thought that maybe I had gone one level too low.  And I had. The floors were identical, so I didn't realize. (Later we were able to laugh about my being on the "most-wanted list!"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 *************************************

God doesn't give up looking for us, either, when we need to be found.

"For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I Myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.'" (Ezekiel 34:11)

"For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."  (Luke 19:10)
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And we shouldn't give up looking for and seeking God.  He WILL be found. He won't hide from us (on a different floor!).  We just have to do it in the right spirit:

"You will seek Me and find Me when you seek for Me with all your heart."  (Jeremiah 29:13)

"The humble will see their God at work and be glad.  Let all who seek God's help be encouraged."  (Psalm 69:32)
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                      Jesus, thank You for your so-familiar, yet so-heartening words:
                        "Ask and it will be given you; seek and you will find; 
                               knock and the door will be opened to you."  (Matthew 7:7)