4th Sun. Lent C
“While he was still a long way off he father caught sight of him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.” [from the story of the Prodigal Son, Luke 15:1-3, 11:32]
When the younger son asked for his inheritance from his father, the son has regarde his father to be dead. For the son his father has become a nobody. The relationship did not matter. The father meant nothing. He is dead. But the father did not feel the same. When the son returned to his father, the wayward son was not treated as a slave, much less a nobody. He was considered dead. He was not turned away. The father ran towards the returning son and the father embraced him. For the father his son was never dead; he was never a nobody. He was still alive and he was his son. The father never stopped loving him.
Ganyan din po ang Diyos nating Ama. Makailang beses man natin siyang talikuran dahil nakuha na natin ang gusto natin sa kanya hindi siya tatalikod sa atin. Makailang beses mang di natin suklian ang pagkalinga niyang wagas, tuloy pa rin ang pagkalinga niya. Makailang beses mang mapako ang mga pangako nating mgbabalik-loob, di pa rin siya hihinto sa paghihintay. Kung tayo’y babalik, malayo pa, patakbo pa siyang sasalubong sa atin at yayakapin.
Ngayong panahon ng Kwaresma kapag-natagpuan na natin ang yakap ng Diyos Ama huwag na po sana tayong umalis pa.
