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A maze of grace

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  Jesus replied, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.  A second is equally important: Love your neighbor as yourself.’ -Matthew 22:37-39 Have you ever been through a maze?  Some years ago, I remember going through a corn maze with my older two boys at the pumpkin patch by my under grad college, in California.  There are not very many pumpkin patches here in Hawaii unfortunately.  I had to really seek one out this year.  We do have a pineapple maze at the Dole pineapple Plantation that we all went through as a family one time.  For both mazes,  I recall walking through or running even at times just trying to keep up with my boys going ahead of me in fear that I would lose them.  If I couldn’t see them, then sure enough, one wrong turn and we’d be lost.  Those times I felt I had lost them, I would just start shouting their names and they woul...