Ever since I was a little girl I've loved the Parable of The Prodigal Son. It of course is a wonderful story of love and redemption and can be found in the third book of the New Testament (Luke 15:11-32).
Several years ago when my family and I were going through an extremely emotional and challenging time I found myself leaning heavily upon the teachings of my early childhood. I can't begin to tell you the renewed hope I carried within my heart as I remembered the message behind the words Jesus first shared with his Disciples over two thousand year ago. There is such mercy in the Father's eyes!
Through twenty-one verses of a fairly short Bible story I learned to hold fast to my faith in God and to never give up on those I love...no matter how despairing things may seem.
I was certain I had once shared with you the words to the following song, but try as I might I can't find the Post with the lyrics. Maybe I'm mistaken...or...maybe I just need to share them again. Just maybe...JUST MAYBE one of you is standing today in the very place where I once stood...
Through twenty-one verses of a fairly short Bible story I learned to hold fast to my faith in God and to never give up on those I love...no matter how despairing things may seem.
I was certain I had once shared with you the words to the following song, but try as I might I can't find the Post with the lyrics. Maybe I'm mistaken...or...maybe I just need to share them again. Just maybe...JUST MAYBE one of you is standing today in the very place where I once stood...
Blessings to you today as you worship and trust completely in The Most High!
COME HOME
(Author Unknown)
"Have you hungered in the wilderness for a peace that your heart knew before? Have you wandered finding something less when inside you've been longing for more. If you remember how it used to be when you lived your life more abundantly...
Come home...come home.
If you're tired, and weary, come home. The Father is waiting to welcome his own, and you've been gone, so long. Come home.
You've been searching since you said good-bye, like a child with a lesson to learn. But there's mercy in your Father's eyes as He waits for the day you return. And it won't matter where your heart has been when He holds you close in His arms again...
Come home...come home.
If you're tired and weary, come home. The Father is waiting to welcome His own, and you've been gone so long.. come home... come home...
Oh why do you keep running from the one who loves you most, so far from where you know you want to be? Patiently He's waiting and He longs to hold you close...even now He's calling softly and tenderly;
Come home...Come home.
If you're tired and weary come home... the Father is waiting to welcome His own... and you've been gone so long... you've been gone so long... Come home."
Come home...come home.
If you're tired, and weary, come home. The Father is waiting to welcome his own, and you've been gone, so long. Come home.
You've been searching since you said good-bye, like a child with a lesson to learn. But there's mercy in your Father's eyes as He waits for the day you return. And it won't matter where your heart has been when He holds you close in His arms again...
Come home...come home.
If you're tired and weary, come home. The Father is waiting to welcome His own, and you've been gone so long.. come home... come home...
Oh why do you keep running from the one who loves you most, so far from where you know you want to be? Patiently He's waiting and He longs to hold you close...even now He's calling softly and tenderly;
Come home...Come home.
If you're tired and weary come home... the Father is waiting to welcome His own... and you've been gone so long... you've been gone so long... Come home."
Love to you...
