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The Story of the "Prodigal Son"
Interpreting The “Prodigal Son”
This story was a reminder for me, because it still happens today. When the young son wanted and demanded his money, he decided to move far away from his family. He thought that he didn't need any one and just be on his own, having fun and spending all his money. Today that still happens, when we are young; we tend to want to move out as soon as possible from our parents home. And eventually we realized like the young son that life is not as easy as we thought. So what are the consequences of these decisions we make like the prodigal son went through? And what was his family reaction?
As the day's pass by, the young son was starting to have financial problems; due to his way of spending his funds. He didn't think about what would happen when he didn't have any money. He just thought life was about being free and having fun. However, when he was tight on budget, he started to realized he needed to work and find a way to survive from hunger. So he started working by feeding the pigs and still suffer from hunger, because he was not being treated like he was used to by his family. So after so much struggle, he remember his father and decided to move back.
When he went back to his family, he was really ashamed of what he had done. However, his father was waiting for his return one day and his arms were open and ready to hug him.The young son still ashmed and told his dad that he didn't deserve to be call his son. But his father still was excited to see him again, because he love him so much. Just like we as parents love our children, no matter what.
The father ask the servants to have his son dressed up for the celebration of his return to life.

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And ask the servant to kill a calf and have a feast for his sons return; however when the oldre brother came and realized what was going on. He felt jealous and didn't like the reaction his father has taken, because he felt that his brother didn't deserve it, after

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