When he was five years old, Saroo Brierley fell asleep on a train bound for Calcutta, India from his hometown. Separated from his family and unable to describe his way home, he was taken into state care and eventually adopted to a family in Australia. But his memories of his village in India, of his mother and siblings, persisted.

Fast forward 26 years, and Saroo is sitting at a computer looking at Google Maps. He realizes that this might be the tool he needs to find his family again, and begins using the photographic map to follow the rail lines that radiate out from Calcutta. Eventually, he sees the image of a train station that's the same as the one in his memory, and sets out in search of his home. He finds the house of his childhood, and, a few meters away, his mother. Reunited after 26 years, because of a longing for home, and the right kind of map.

Possible Preaching Angle:

Have you ever felt a longing for heaven—what C.S. Lewis called your "true home"? The Bible describes us all as strangers and pilgrims in a foreign land, who long for reunion with our true family. What we lack though, is a map that shows us the way back. But we find that map in the Bible, where we realize that by following Jesus's path through life, death, and resurrection, we can arrive, with the sweetness of a half-forgotten memory, in the true place where we belong.