Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 15, 2024 – Quote for the Day:
“In The Return of the Prodigal Rembrandt paints the older brother with folded hands, frowning on the homecoming, even as his father generously grants a free and total pardon to the returning, younger son. The older brother cannot accept his father’s failure to demand penance and retribution from his wayward younger brother. The older brother is scandalized by the extravagant way in which his father lavishly extends grace.
But the father makes no demands that the returning son ‘give something up’ in payment for his poor choices and bad behavior. In Jesus’ parable the primary things that are ‘given up’ and sacrificed are 1) the father’s justifiable (by human reckoning) demand for payback and 2) the fatted calf.”
Originally published in:
Letters to My Friends
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