“I feel like there are parts of myself that have been lost along the way, and I don’t know if I can go back and find them again.” Is this how the woman who lost a coin or the shepherd who lost a sheep felt; for these in the parable, this was more than a coin, more than a sheep – without what we’ve lost, we’re less than the whole and want ourselves back.
What happens for you when you read the bible? There may be some parts you enjoy more than others but do you wonder if the context, two thousand years later, means the same for us too?