As the prodigal son sat starving in the hog pen, considering whether or not he should eat their food, HE CAME TO HIMSELF and said, “How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough to eat and to spare, and I perish out here with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.’” He returned to his father with a servant’s heart. His father welcomed him home with love and compassion, as his son, and not as a servant. (Luke 15:11-24)
Dee Richardson, Voice of the Dove