Sweet encouragement!

Sometimes, pastors go home and wonder if anyone even heard the sermon....or cared....or liked it.....or ANYTHING! I spend hours studying and preparing. Yet many times, I have no idea if it helped someone or not. But this morning,I had a little ray of sweet encouragement. One of the men in the church told me that he has 2 lost lambs among his children and 2 are found. Two of his children are in church along with their families...but two of them are not in church yet. And, then he added that he has 3 siblings that are lost and 6 that are already found....there are 10 brothers and sisters and only 3 of them are not in church yet. When those 2 and those 3 are found, he will be completely happy. Yes, I preached on the parable of the lost sheep! .....two Sundays in a row! And the message touched him. How thankful I am that God sends us some sweet encouragement now and then.