Often the word prodigal is commonly mistaken for a synonym of wayward, and thus is almost always applied to the son in the story that we have been studying for the last couple of weeks. But the word, prodigal, actually means “one who spends or gives lavishly; limitlessly extravagant.” Sure it speaks of the younger son who demands his inheritance and runs off, completely wasting all of it on partying. He ends up hungry and degraded doing manual labor, feeding pigs. Finally, he decides to return home and ask his father if he can be a servant—a wonderful story of redemption and forgiveness. It is also the story of the kid who never left home. The one who has always done everything right. The kid who feels entitled. The kid who can’t stomach going to a party to celebrate the return of his screw-up kid brother. Typically we fall into one of these two categories: Either we feel that we’re not good enough for grace or that grace isn’t good enough for us. However, as we will see this week, The Prodigal Son story is more about a father’s love and cry for intimacy than it is about either son. This week we will take a look at the “limitless, extravagant” grace offered by the Father. We’ll learn that our relationship to the Father is not determined by our virtue or how much we do, but it is simply determined by the limitless, extravagant love of God. In the same way, the father ran down literal roads to greet his wayward boy, God runs down the hallways of time and eternity towards us--an eternal, forward motion compelled by love to meet us saying “all that is mine is yours”.