This is me, is that you?

We all learn to play hide and seek as children. Thing is, we continue to play it as adults. If we are lucky we will be found.
Sometimes we don't want to be found. Sometimes we just want to keep on hiding. We believe the last man hiding wins. So we stay underneath the mattress or behind a doorway waiting to win and just as much waiting to be found.
Sad thing though, if we are never found we will go on thinking that we have won the game meanwhile all our "found" friends are enjoying one another's company. They have moved on to another game. Still a winner?
We learn to play hide and seek. The hiding is the easy part. It is the being found that is the hard part. Sometimes when we are found we are ridiculed. Sometimes we are found and we feel ashamed. We want to go back to our hiding place. Alone.
I would like to think the Christian way of playing hide and seek is more like the game of sardines. Someone hides- and everyone else has to find that person and hide with them. The last man to find the group- loses but in a way he wins. He is proactively searching for everyone- for the community- and he receives his reward. Rather than hiding alone- he hides with everyone else.
I would like to think this is the Christian version of hiding, But it isn't always.
Most of us are left hiding in our isolation only desperately wanting to be found.