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Have you seen him?
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Every Tuesday I will receive a bunch of “trash” mail, full of advertising I don’t want. Normally I receive them and dump them in the trash right away, hence the “trash” mail name.
This Tuesday, however, my eyes stop at at a ad says “Have you seen him”? It is a search ad, a picture of a teenager having very floppy and weird folding ears, and next to it is a picture of a computer edited twenty years’ progressed look, having the same floppy and weird folding ears. I guess it’s his ears catching my attention rather than the search itself. However, it is interesting enough for me to read the complete ad that encourages me to post the ads anywhere so other people can help find the same person.
Is that teenager boy escaped from his family from a heated argument, or did he get involve in drugs that he never wanted to go back home? Other faces of similar ads also surface up. A girl of five years old, did she get lost in the supermarket while his parents were busy shopping? Or did someone abduct the girl out of a school when parents lost in vain finding her? A young man of thirty years, did he just walk out of a marriage leaving his wife and children in despair? Or was he in an airplane crash but his body was never be found? An old woman of seventy years old, did she take a regular walk but couldn’t remember how to get back? Or did she wonder off the rest home during lunch?
Regardless of the situation, someone is looking for them earnestly and eagerly. Have you seen him? Have you seen her? After five, ten, twenty, thirty years, they never give up. Have you seen him? Have you seen her? They ask eagerly, they ask urgently, they ask persistently. They are running a local, or even a national ad. Regardless whether people would see the ad or throw them in the trash, or whether the present person would look remotely like the progressive picture the computer generated, they hope one day they will find their loved ones; who can be their children, their spouse, their children or their close friends.
Have you seen him? Have you seen her? Earnestly and eagerly, come home, come home. Softly and tenderly, come home, come home. A calling too familiar that reminds me of a loving Jesus, whatever you do, wherever you are, I want to find you, I am searching for you, and regardless how long it will take, I am running a national ad looking for you. Please come, I have prepared the feast on the table, the warm water in the tub, and I haven’t seen you in years that you don’t know how much I miss you! Have you been wary have you been tired, please come and be with me in the garden where you can rest. I can hold you till the dawn and I will take care of your broken scar. Have you seen him? Have you seen her? Please, please, when you find him, please let me know. Please, please, when you find her, please let me know. If you see him, please let him know I love him. If you see her, please let her know I love her. I am waiting.