As Katerina Whitley tells us in her "A Ministry of Reconciliation, "," "In a country that is bitterly divided, at a time when hatred seems to be winning over love and where hostility works against reconciliation, let us move as true ambassadors for Christ to spread the good news of God’s embrace for all of God’s creation and created beings. “We entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” St. Paul’s entreaty rings in our ears: “On behalf of Christ.” And the image of a loving father, of God’s arms ready to embrace each lost child, stays before our eyes as we proceed in this Lenten season toward resurrection." Debie Thomas '"Love and Lostness" is one of the best analysts of the characters in the Prodigal Son parable I have read.
What better way to understand reconciliation, what enables us to reconcile, and what keeps us from reconciling than Jesus' parable of the prodigal son.
How, and what can we do, to engage in a ministry of reconciliation? What does it take for and from us? For and from others? Consider Sister Kym Harris' "Exposition."
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