Pastor's sermon was about the prodigal son. You know the story, the son asks the father for his inheritance and goes off and squanders it on fast living and ends up in the mud with the pigs. Maybe you even know someone this happened to - similarly. The father lets him go. When things get bad and the son is broke he goes back home to see if his father will hire him as help. The father is thrilled to have him home and gives him back his entire inheritance. This story is about Lent and us and God. Come back home to God, He has great things for you.
On this day
2006 --My friend Patrick picked me up and we went to Port Sanilac for our friend, Ty's, Dad's funeral. We stopped after at the Dad's old farmhouse to see what shape it is in. That was 10 years ago, we have a hard time getting rid of our parents stuff.
1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers. This was not a fair fight. They should have had a Delta force and a few Navy Seals to even it out.
Parenting
Most parents, if they had a child they knew was "wayward" would not give them their inheritance, first because they aren't dead yet and to make sure the child doesn't kill themselves with it. Most parents do welcome their children back after they have made stupids decisions and hope they won't do it again. There are those families that never see an end to youthful poor decision making and have to constantly be faced with the returning remorseful, but not necessarily cured offspring. We are not God, we don't always keep forgiving, but usually never stop loving. If you know someone with this situation, say a prayer for them.
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре, tr. Okhotskoye More; IPA: [ɐˈxotskəɪ ˈmorʲɪ]; Japanese: オホーツク海 Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean,[1] lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the islandof Hokkaido to the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast (including the Shantar Islands) along the west and north. The northeast corner is the Shelikhov Gulf. The sea is named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable!
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