Great story - and another one that kids can relate to. VERY Shack-like in its representation of God's love for us. I think the Story did a good job of laying out all of the parallel details of the prodigal son and humankind.
Adam pointed out that the Story missed out on the part where the son assumes he can only go back home to be a servant. ~ power of Grace.
How funny.... I just posted a long post about how infuriating it is when technology messes up... only to have my computer erase my long comment on this story and make me laugh out loud about how irritated I was.
ReplyDeleteSo the main point of my comment was that I was a little surprised to see that the book left out the other brother who stayed home and was jealous of the father's reaction to the prodigal son. The father's reaction is telling -- everything I have is yours, but this son of mine was dead and now he is alive. The father forgives and welcomes the son home but doesn't "undo" his choice to blow his inheritance.
Another comment is about the use of pigs. The analogy drives home how aweful the son's life was. Our equivalent would be something from "dirty jobs" that didn't pay ends meet and the son had to live at whatever dirty job he had... something gut-wrenchingly disgusting. In the Jewish mind there is nothing dirtier or more disgusting than pigs.