Lk 15:1-32

• Lost sheep
• man lost one sheep;
  
• leave the 99 in the open country and go after the lost one;
• until it is found;
• calls friends and neighbors to rejoice with him;
• Lost coin
• woman lost one silver coin
• light a lamp, sweep the house, search carefully until found;
• calls friends and neighbors to rejoice with her;
• Lost son
• man with two sons
• older son->Pharisee? (v31)
• younger son -> lost and is found (v32)
• younger son demands his share of the estate
• took all of it
• left for a foreign country far away;
• squandered all the money (with prostitutes) (v30)
• with a sever famine, he was in need
• got employed as a pig feeder
• went hungry and wanted to eat pig's food;
• he came to his senses and decided to
  
• return home
• admit his sins to his father
  
• and become an employee of his father
• he got up and went to his father
• his father
• saw him while still a long way off
• filled with compassion for him
• ran to his son
• threw his arms around him
• kissed him
• after the son admitted his sins, his father ordered his servants to
  
• be quick
• get the best robe for his son
  
• put a ring on his finger
• sandals on his feet
• kill the fattened calf (yum!)
• the calf, not a calf!
  
• have a feast and celebrate
• the elder son found out about this
• got angry
• refused to go in
• answered to his father, who went out and pleaded with him
• look!
• all these years
• I'm a slave to you
• never disobeyed you
• you never gave me even a young goat
• but when this son come home, you killed the fattened calf for him
• father's reply
• my son
• you're always with me
  
• everything I have is yours (the younger son got his share already)
• but we had to celebrate and be glad
• because this brother of yours was
• dead and is alive again
• was lost and is found
• the story ends here, without telling us how it turned out in the end; I can identify with the elder son, but the father's heart for his son is filled with compassion; that's probably the only way the younger son can be saved; go in and celebrate, be a good brother; in the end, God is just.