In Luke 15:20–32, a waiting father sees his son still a long way off and runs — interrupting the rehearsed apology with a robe, a ring, a feast, and the words that have anchored this entire series: "this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found." The son had talked himself all the way down to hired servant, but the father's love restored him fully and immediately without conditions — not because of who the son was, but because of who the father is. And that is good news for every one of us.
