To: The Prodigal Sons & Daughters

Dear Prodigal Son,

I know you are bored and you want an adventure. You are growing up in a world that makes no sense. You see good people dying and getting abused and you see bad people who are rich, famous and living their best lives. You think being home is boring and this pointless cycle you want to get out of. So you decide to run away from home to live this extravagant life you desire. You run to the world with all your burdens, insecurities, questions, and money. You begin to party, travel anywhere you want whenever you want, and spend selfishly on girls and drinks. You find your worth in your outward appearance, but your heart is confused without love. You begin to feel numb and begin to lose it all. All you thought you wanted begins to feel pointless and shame creeps in.

Dear Prodigal Daughter;

I know you want to be loved and to love, but you look for love in all the wrong places. You've been heartbroken by cruelty, boys, girls, and failure. You begin to lose yourself, you wonder if you are with it, enough for someone, for anyone. You want to know your purpose in this world. You feel like you can't go back home because you've done too much, you've hurt too many people, you've turned your back on those who always loved you. Your numbness has led you to give yourself away to any guy. You want your heart to beat again. You cry yourself to sleep wondering if waking up is worth it and if anyone would notice that you are dead inside. You want it to end.

Dear Prodigal sons and daughters;

I know you feel ashamed and you feel like you are too far gone and unworthy to be saved. I see your heart. Come home to me anyway and see that I hate shame. I've always been here for you, I'm praying, pleading for you to come home to my open arms. My arms and heart never closed from you, My daughter, My son. I want all of you, my love is unconditional. I want all your pain, your sin, your thoughts, your heart. I am someone who receives sinners and eats with them. Come home to me and feel my love.

Love your Savior,

JESUS the Son of God

Luke 15:18-20, " Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son, make me like one of your hired servants." And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Luke 15:22-24, " But the father said to his servants ' Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' And they began to be merry."

Come home to the only God. The God who saves, the God who knows your heart. It's time to be found, no longer lost! Jesus is the only one after you dearly beloved.

" What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ' Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost! I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance."

From: The Father

October 5th, 2021