I'll tell you what...when I started in this sport 4yrs ago, never in my mind was the idea of such an opportunity to witness to people through a lost item...all I wanted was an excuse to get outdoors and find things to satisfy a primal urge to hunt..
.very shortly afterwards, as you all have experienced, you find something of great value like a class ring or something where all of a sudden, you are thrown into a spiritual struggle with what to do...do you keep it? Do you make an effort to return it? What are we? Treasure hunters, Pirates, or do-gooders?
Its something every one of us has to wrestle with personally...I understand both sides of the argument and do not pass judgement on either side...keep, or return?..its one of those things.......
Never thought this sport would cause such a deep spiritual response.... we were all once lost and then found...so it is deeply spiritual experience to do a return, a chance to interface and witness to a complete stranger, and maybe at a time in their life when they needed it most...God gives us a little taste of the joy He got by hunting and finding Us when we were lost...at our darkest hour...so what are we to do? Pass up an opportunity like this? At the very least a guy knows God has chosen a few to go look for the lost, quite an honor! Who knows who's next for any of us this coming year? How many lives can be effected to the good in His Honor? A very strange and humbling experience....all I wanted to do was go find some pennies...sends a chill up my spine when we find something lost with a name on it...Lifes short, bigger stuff afoot, gotta deliver the Hope...whats an eternal soul worth and the honor given of taking the shot?
Mud