Some things become part of your past. Others seem stuck forever in your future. Still others show up in the here-and-now, only to reveal themselves to be different from what you thought they would be. My posts on Lost Things almost took the name Given Up Things instead (and I still like the acronym GUT), because each of these things represents something that used to be an expectation, but now may be only a hope, or even a concession, and each of these has been “given up” to God in prayer.