@Kelly Latimore Icons, “The Prodigal Son”
The image is often called the Prodigal Son and it seems I now and then have to look up “prodigal” because for much of my life I thought it was about a “wasteful” or “sinful” son. Because it can mean extremely extravagant, what does that have to do with the son? Well, maybe it’s not really about an extremely extravagant son squandering and wasting the gifts/inheritance his Father (God) gave him. Maybe we should call it the Prodigal Father– an extremely extravagant God! Now that is a change in thinking. I am being looked at by a Father (God) who never ceases to look at me with love and never ceases to lavish me with grace, tenderness, forgiveness and compassion. Now that’s an extremely extravagant God! – Pat Dougherty