Prodigal father? Wait a minute. Don't you mean prodigal son? Well, yes and no. Yesterday's Gospel was the story commonly referred to as "The Prodigal Son", which is one of the most well known stories in, or outside of, the Bible. (Luke 11:1-3, 11b-32). As Pastor Shelly mentioned in her sermon, one of the meanings for the word "prodigal" is simply "extravagant, bordering on reckless". That surely is how the younger son spent his share of the inheritance...extravagantly! And not just bordering on reckless, but reckless to the point of loosing everything...which left him shamed, broken, empty, lost. The only thing that could really save him would be an extravagant (bordering on reckless) kind of mercy and love. Which is what the father offered. That is what we see during this season of Lent. An extravagant kind of love offered by God to his shamed, broken, empty and lost world. Come, see, this upcoming weekend what kind of extravagance is going on in the readings next.
May you all have a good week, basking in the extravagant love and mercy of God, as you bask in the beauty of this season with new life Springing up all around us.
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