Prodigal’s Hymn

This is not a story song based on a parable that Jesus told. This is my own story, and perhaps yours. Whatever else my capture my attention and my heart through the rest of my life, nothing will compare to my wonder at the lavishness of God’s love for me. The word “prodigal” mean extravagant or lavish. It’s used to describe the son because of his wasteful, reckless living. It’s been suggested that it better suits the father because of his wasteful reckless loving. Though I’ll never understand it and never fully accept it, I’m glad that it’s so. John writes, “How great is the Father’s love for us that he should call us his sons and his daughters … and that’s what we are!” “How great” indeed!