The Gospel in Storybooks: Where the Wild Things Are

   Shortly after going to see The Shack at the movies, I purchased the soundtrack. There was one song I just didn't really care for, and one line of one song in particular. It was actually the theme song of the entire movie, "Keep Your Eyes on Me" by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. The line goes like this:

"Ain't it the sinner who gets all the grace sometimes?

Ain't it the saint, who picks up the pieces sometimes?

It's human to hurt the ones, hurt the ones, you love the most."

     Then I stopped and thought about those words in the context of the parable of the prodigal son. I did't like them, because they were so true. So authentic to how we can look at the world sometimes - breaking people down into categories like sinner and saint and looking at God's grace to each other with suspicion. Judging people from our own human perspectives instead of celebrating, as God does, when any one come home.
      What do you struggle with in the parable of the younger/ prodigal son found in Luke 15: 11-32? What gives you hope?