Blessed Epiphany - Why were you searching for me? (Luke 2:49)

Searching for Jesus (Luke 2:41:51)

Have you ever lost something? How have you gone about finding it?

A few ways:
We start with the ususal suspects.
If not found, we expand our search.
If still not found, we retrack, back to where it was last found.

In the story, the parents of Jesus lost him and they searched for him, to no avail, then they tracked back to Jerusalem, and found him at the temple courts.

But note Jesus' reply to the parents:
49"Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" 50 But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

My interpretation:
"Why were you searching for me, as if I was lost? I am not lost. I know where I am because I know who I am. I am at where I am suppose to be at - I am in my Father's house.

But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Is there a voice within you asking yourself
"Why were you searching for me, as if I was lost? I am not lost. I know where I am because I know who I am. I am at where I am suppose to be at. And you did not understand what your heart is saying to you."

Do we know who we are, thus where we are supposed to be?
Are you lost? How then are you to search?

51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Don't be scare nor impatient. Live the question.
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the question now. Perhap you will gradually, without noticing it, living among some distant day into the answers.

Blessed Epiphany!
and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.