God keeps all promises even when we don’t, and God is forever willing to be reconciled with us. God promises to provide for us, to feed us, to love us. All we need to do is trust in God. 

The point is, at one time or another we all find ourselves “outside the father’s house,” and he is eager to welcome us inside where we belong.

Two children, a father, and an inheritance: How many stories begin this way, and how bitterly many of them end!

Here are the symptoms of Elder Brother Syndrome (a condition from which we all suffer at one time or another).

Home is where the heart is, and their hearts were invested in ideal versions of the people and places from whence they came.

Like the parable of the prodigal son, this story is filled with excess and waste, but in modern corporate America, the profligacy is rarely followed by remorse, reconciliation, and abundant good will.

The father is the central character in Jesus’ parable, not the prodigal son or his faithful brother.

Our God welcomes us back from our wanderings to the table of the eternal banquet. In hope and trust let us present our needs to God.

Reconciliation manifests itself in the “prodigal” love of the father, which overcomes both one son’s leaving the family and another’s resentment. God’s love overwhelms our transgressions.

There are many kinds of alms the giving of which helps us to obtain pardon for our sins; but none is greater than that by which we forgive from our heart a sin that someone has committed against us.  —Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)