When A Child Is Lost

When a child is lost, lost to unknown circumstances, lost to suspicion of persons with evil intentions, then to the eyes of the parents the lights of sun, moon and stars have ceased to shine, the blooming flowers in October lose their fragrance, and food doesn't taste in the tongue. When a child is lost, then parents who plea for their child's return move us to tears because children are not goods to be stolen but priceless treasure to be cared for. When the child is lost, we share the universal pain of losing our beloved. Let us pray that the human goodness in the heart of the person who stole the child prevail and that the lost child be found.