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(preparing for Sunday December 23)
What kind of spoor can you identify? What is “spoor” you say? They are signs left behind – like foot prints. Wikipedia says, “Spoor is any sign of a creature 
or trace by which the progress of someone or something may be followed.” I always know when the deer have been in the garden, partly by the hoof prints in the soil and also by the nipped branches or partly eaten fruit between 2 to 4 feet high.
I can identify the prints of deer, dog, bear and people…. maybe geese too. Prints can tell you a lot. Where the prints are washed out or wind-blown can tell you about when they were left or the weather conditions or the ebb and flow of the tide since that time. They can also tell you about who or what has passed this way and perhaps what direction they were going. Depending on your mood or interest, they might even invite you to follow, to see where they may lead.
Over the years certain people have left indelible makes in my life. Many of them have influenced me positively and give me courage or better perspective or confidence for living. I can name scores of them by name and see their faces clearly. Others of them have faded from my memory, but I know in my soul that their influence has helped to shape who I am and what I care about.
The Apostle Paul writes something similar about people of faith connecting with other people, in 2 Corinthians 3:2-3. He says that we are each a letter from Christ for all to read, not written with ink but with the Holy Spirit. Perhaps wherever the Spirit of God touches our lives – right there is the touch and fingerprint of God. That print is left upon us so that others also may see the grace and mercy of God. Can you follow that print? It’s an amazing trail.
Pastor Mitch