geocaching

I heard about this thing called geocaching. there are over 800,000 hidden boxes around the world. There is a website called www.geocache.com that gives you the global coordinates to these boxes. It's kind of a treasure hunt for the whole family. When you find the box you are supposed to do 2 things...
1. Sign your name on a log... make your mark.
2. Takes a something out and put something back in.

It sounded interesting to me. so I typed in my address and set the search to search 6 miles from my address. I was amazed to find that there were over 100 of these hidden boxes around where I live. I took my son and a friend to seek out some geocaches. I was amazed to find several that were hidden in locations that I drive by just about every day. Josiah took out a toy and put some back in and we signed our name on the log. I was excited. We raced home to tell Candie and my friends wife. They endured my long story and when I was done Candie said... "Now listen to our story." She proceeded to tell me how her and our our friend patty met this homeless woman. She took her into Subway to buy her a meal and seized the opportunity to minister. Patty listened to this woman as she begin to tell her story..... then at just the right time, Patty shared Christ.

While I was searching for treasure and making my mark and depositing more than I was withdrawing.....Patty was doing the real thing. It's amazing the treasure we drive by and walk right by everyday. We are given the coordinates but never really get intentional about the search. We don't make much of a mark on people and sometimes we end up withdrawing more than we deposit. I learned something valuable that day....I want to go treasure hunting more often.