If we search high and low, we look everywhere.

We try our best to find something or someone. Examples of people who search high and low include:

• Children playing “Hide and Seek”
• Adults having a senior moment (forgetting where they put something)
• Shoppers searching for the perfect gift

Similar expressions include:

• Hunt high and low
• Look high and low
• Search from here to yonder

My friend Laurel Blevins found this tree on a local walking trail. Animals can hole up high and low inside it.

Many of us search high and low for joy.

Yet, our search fails when we look for joy in:

• Money
• Power
• Popularity
• Drugs and alcohol
• Anything that does not last

We don’t need to wear ourselves out searching. Look to God, our only source of true joy.

“The joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10 NIV).

Does this tree remind anyone else of a cookie commercial?

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