Claimed

I read this week of a family pet from my home town.

The family had a monster of a tortoise that lived free-range in the family back garden. Not being content with having the whole outside grass and shrubs at his disposal, he often decided to do a Steve McQueen and pull off daring escapes. OK, there were no motorbikes or wooden vaulting horses involved, he simply burrowed under the panel fences and (in some cases) made it four houses down. Upon the third ‘prison break’, the family decided drastic action was needed to avoid losing him forever. They took a brush to his shell and painted their full home address for all to see on his back. Upon personalising that tortoise, they made an oath that it was theirs for life - for all to see.

It's amazing that God does the same with his people,

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands (Isaiah 49:16)