The biblical prodigal son
You must have perhaps heard the story of the biblical prodigal son. It is a common story among Christians. A parable told by Christ. It tells the story of a son who was greatly doted on by his father. The young prodigal son was unsatisfied with the life he led with his father and elder brother in their little farmhouse, so he asked his father to give him his own inheritance. The old man refused to do so but upon incessant pestering by the young son, he had to give in and share his property into two equal parts, one for the eldest son and one for the youngest son.
The young prodigal son went with his inheritance into a faraway land and squandered it's on earthly things. Soon he has nothing left. In order to survive, he had to find a job where he fed pigs. Sometimes he would feed along with the pigs because he had nothing to feed on.
Meanwhile, the father to this prodigal son would always stay out on the road path waiting for his son to come home to him.
Night turned into days and there into years but his son never came back. The old man never give up awaiting his son's return.
The prodigal son who now leads a life of poverty soon realised his mistake. One day while feeding his master's pigs, he thought to himself and said, "in my father's house there enough to make merry and drink but here I am eating with pigs. I shall go back to my father and say to him, 'father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am not worthy to be called your child anymore for I have wronged you greatly. So please, take me as one of your servant and I shall gladly serve you with all my heart."
After he has said this to himself, he went off and embarks on a journey back home to his father. When his father sighted him from afar, he rushed and hugged his long lost son. He ordered the servants to kill the fattest cow and prepare a banquet to celebrate the return of his son whom he had thought was dead.
In the old man's oldest son who had gone to feed the cows came back, he saw that there was a great feast in the house. So he called one of the servants who told him that his father had called the banquet to welcome back his long-lost younger brother. The elder brother was infuriated. He called his father aside and said to him, "father, all those years I have toiled for you and you never gave me a lamb to eat and make merry with my friends. But as soon as that insolent son of yours came back from squandering your wealth, you decide to throw him a party?" His father said to him, "all I have now is yours bird eat is good that we rejoice and throw a party for your brother, but he was lost and he has been found. He was dead but now he's alive."
This is an adaptation of the biblical prodigal son as recorded in the Gospel of Luke 15:11-32
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