Today is Monday, May 16th, 2005; Karen's Korner #546

Since Jim is fishing in Minnesota for a few days, I was looking for something special to do on Friday night. I heard about a gospel fest in Des Moines and called a friend, Bev Downs who now lives near Des Moines, to see if she wanted to attend with me. She did!
 
As we were walking in to the performance, I said to her, "When we were 16 or 26, is this where we would have been on a Friday night?"
 
I thought the same thing the early part of March when our church family hosted a four-night "actively alive" seminar at our church. I would see heads of individuals and couples in the 50 and 60 age group and think, "Who would have believed that this gal? That guy would spend two, three, and/or four nights in a row in church? In 1960 or 1970?"
 
But we are! We did!
 
Like Bev said, "Maybe we are finally wiser!"
 
It makes me think of the story of the prodigal son in the Bible. Most of us recall the story of the two sons. One who asked for his inheritance, left the family home, took off and squandered all of his money on frivalous things. But finally came to his senses and decided to return home.
 
Maybe that tends to be most of us. God gives us some gifts and talents and we can't wait to take off with them, travel to a foreign country, get ourselves in a pack of trouble, look around to get ourselves out of it, before we determine we might not be able to handle this thing called life on our own. We wise up.........and return home, looking for the Father and His answers.
 
I wonder what would have happened if that same son would have asked for his inheritance and then asked for his father's help and wisdom and taken dad along with him!
 
As we approach graduation time for high schoolers and college-aged students, I wonder what would happen if our graduates would do the same thing.
 
If they don't. If we don't, all we have to do is come to our senses, make our journey back home. And Our Father in Heaven will be there waiting with His open arms. Ready to take us back into the family. Ready to throw a party on our behalf. Ready to continue to love us!

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