“Many of my daily preoccupations suggest that I belong more to the world than to God. A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows that my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.”
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well.”
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
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from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
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“I witness many signs of hope. I don’t have to wait until all is well, but I can celebrate every little hint of the Kingdom that is at hand.”
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“Living out this spiritual fatherhood requires the radical discipline of being home. As a self-rejecting person always in search of affirmation and affection, I find it impossible to love consistently without asking for something in return. But the discipline is precisely to give up wanting to accomplish this myself as a heroic feat. To claim for myself spiritual fatherhood and the authority of compassion that belongs to it, I have to let the rebellious younger son and the resentful elder son step up on the platform to receive the unconditional, forgiving love that the Father offers me, and to discover there the call to be home as my Father is home.”
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
― The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
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