Sat.- Come Home

31: And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours.
32: But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back. Luke 15

This summation is the crux of the Prodigal son story for me. Both sons are honored, the one who was faithful all his life and the one who went away and came home again.

As a parent I know that it's so easy to take for granted the efforts of whoever is consistent and make a fuss when someone does something special for them that may be average behavior for a sibling.

There is value in making the effort to move to better ways of living as well as to keeping to those ways.