Luke 15:4 Meaning Which of You Men

Nothing that belongs to love can truly be lost, only mislaid in the mind that has wandered from its own wholeness. When a single part of the Sonship seems to stray into fear, love does not count what remains and call the sum sufficient. It goes after the one, because wholeness is not a number but a condition, and a mind that overlooks even one brother has not yet remembered that all are held as one.

The seeking never ends in weariness, for it continues until the lost is found. This is how the mind that has chosen love looks upon those who seem gone: not as abandoned, but as certain to be gathered home, since a love that would leave any part outside itself would not be love at all.

Sheep: the parts of the one mind, the aspects of the Sonship that belong together and are meant to be held as a single whole. The hundred: the completeness of that Sonship, the wholeness in which not one part can be spared without the whole seeming broken. The wilderness: the barren stretch of perception the mind wanders into when it forgets it is loved, the seeming distance from home.