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          When Wesley Carrington took his newly purchased metal detector into a field near his home in Hertfordshire, England, he had no expectations of finding anything.   He had never used a metal detector before and the one he purchased from the local hardware store was the cheapest one they carried.   After coming across a spoon and a half penny, Carrington found a gold coloured coin that had a Roman figure on it.   Digging a little deeper, he discovered 158 ancient Roman “Solidus” coins worth approximately $156 000.             In April of 2010, Dave Crisp was searching in a field near Somerset, England when his metal detector went off.   Digging down fourteen inches, he found a coin and then the top of a ceramic pot.   The pot contained 52,503 bronze and silver coins dating from AD 253 to 305.   This coin hoard has estimated worth of over $582 000.             Some may read those stories and think that those guys are really lucky and that is certainly true.   In fact, Carring

           I like working on old cars and motorcycles.   When a friend of mine heard this he asked, “Are you stupid?   By the time you get those things back on the road, you will have more time and money in them than you will ever get back.   If you want an old motorcycle, just go buy one!   They are cheap!”             “I realize that I won’t make a lot of money”, I said, “but that is not why I am doing it.   I am doing it for the satisfaction of saying, ‘I did this’”.             Sometimes, the process is the point.             At the start of his ministry, Jesus goes out into the desert and is met by Satan who offers him several short-cuts to success, but Jesus refuses (Matthew 4).   I always thought that Jesus refused simply because the offer came from Satan, but maybe Jesus refused because he knew that the process of obtaining those things was as important as the end result.             In John 15 Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I