My Son Parable

Easily one of most recognizable parables in the Bible, the parable of the prodigal son serves as an allegory for God’s unconditional love and mercy for sinners under the guise of a story about a son’s loss and redemption. To provide context about how parables are intended to work, this essay will begin on how parables function on two levels. On the surface, they are just short and linear narratives. However, upon a closer reading there is a deeper meaning behind them. Parables are meant to be symbolic stories that provide moral lessons. This particular parable was set up so that the Pharisees and scribes would understand the criticism that went with it as they were the intended audience.

In the story "Two Kinds" the mother and daughter both want the same thing for the daughter to have comfortable life but have different beliefs on how this will be achieved. I have sympathy for the Mother because all she truly desires is for her daughter to have the opportunities and life she never had. The mother putting her hopes and dreams causes to the daughter feel like she will is not good enough. The reader can get good depiction of her misery when she thinks “my mother's disappointed face, something inside me began to die.” her mother’s hopes are causing her to have insecurities. Even though both the mother and daughter have valid points I have more sympathy for the daughter. I know from personal experience what the weight of carrying

Have you ever felt lost, in the sense that going back to where you know you belong seems like an impossible task, due to ego? “The Parable of the Lost Son”, in the book of Luke, is a great example in showing how a life full of sin and boastfulness, will ultimately come to a dead end, and gives evidence of why you shouldn’t be afraid of coming back to jesus. For instead of looks of shame and pity, there will be a celebration of the return.

When, I my first daughter was about to be born we knew there was something wrong. She was born premature and when she came out she was blue and rushed to the NICU at St Joes Hospital for the first 8 hours of her life. I was not able to see her or hold her after she was born. That was very hard. My wife and I were thinking the worst but when the NICU nurse came we were relieved that nothing happened to her; she was stable but had to stay in the NICU for 8 days. This time was very hard due to the fact I had a job, my step kids at home and I couldn’t stay with my wife overnight. It was very long 8 days but in the end she was released on the eighth day. From there she has been a very overactive child, which we thought she was just being a kid. We were wrong as we found out when she turned 8 that she was diagnosed with ADHD. She was not able to read very well in 2nd grade, however her math skills were above average. We had to use medication to control the ADHA.

Finally, a personal struggle that happened in my life was what happened with my mother’s friend, Lynzee. Lynzee had six children, four girls and two boys. She really wanted to have another addition to her family. So, when she found out that she was pregnant with a baby girl she was filled with joy. Sadly, her baby was born too early and was fighting for her survival. Her first name was Violet and her middle name was Hope. Violet fought hard and long for her life, but her body was just too weak. She ended up passing away two years after her birth. Lynzee and her family were devastated at the loss of their family member. She overcame this difficult struggle by being with her family and looking on the

Continuing to read this story I found more situations relatable. The argument between the mother and the children made me think of my mother and I fighting. We disagreed a great deal, but we always resolve our conflict. At the end of the day, she is my mother and I am her daughter, and family sticks together. The mother hiked with no pants, and unknowingly loses one of her loafers in the snow. The children assisted her with the search for it, but ended up creating her a shoe from their hats and scarfs. The existing love the children shared for their mother conqured the dismay they previously felt for her. That’s how it was for my mother and me. The love was not always visible but it was still present.

Being two parents at the same time to two growing boys, twenty-four hours a day isn’t a walk in the park. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love what you are doing or learning to do” One of my favorite quotes by the soccer player Pele. I purposely bolded the words sacrifice and love because my mother had to sacrifice so much to keep my brother and I afloat. I didn’t realize the hardships my mom was going through until I got a bit older. She was struggling in what seemed like every aspect of life and she’d never take it out on my brother and I. She always put us first, she would come to every parent teacher conference and to every soccer game. Even if it meant she had to work late other days to be able to attend these events. In my eyes a soccer game and a parent teacher conference seemed so trivial. Why go to those type of events when you could be catching up on sleep? Because her kids are her number one. When I first moved to North Central, I was happy to be free of my mom and to finally be able to be my own person. At first, it was great being able to do whatever I wanted without my mom lurking over me to tell me what to do. But about a week into preseason I noticed that I was making my bed everyday, cleaning up after myself. My mom always exceeded those things of me and I never actually did them at home. I felt like she was nagging me, but now I realize that her intentions were for my best. My respect for my mother and any other woman who works as hard or harder than she does is unparalleled. I know it may seem like I ranted about my mom a lot but I really wanted to give you a taste of how passionate I am about what she taught

The God Moment That Changes Everything Thesis statement: This paper demonstrates the parable of the Prodigal Son. With this in mind, just like the prodigal son, when a person has allowed a destructive habit to control his life, he must realize the danger he is in, be honest with himself and with others about his situation, and take necessary action to make a life change. I will be using Idleman’s ideas and the story of the Prodigal Son as well as relating these ideas to my life as a high school senior. In the book AHA, by Kyle Idleman a parable is used.

Whether they are faced with divorce, death, or abandonment, single parents take great risks for their families. But in some situations, children view those risks as their parent being selfish or neglecting them, which adds tension and stress to the household. From the narrators’ perspectives in the two stories, they view their parents as self-centered and only focused on their own interests and work. Yet, their parent is simply making difficult decisions to help their family succeed. Moreover, the narrators feel neglected by their parent, as they see the situation from a different point of view. They believe their parent is ignoring their well-being, while the parent simply wants the best for their child. Tension arises when people don’t share the same perspective, just as the two narratives have shown. But when they view the situation in a different way, the stress and tension can be

Every parent knows how difficult it is to make decisions in the best interest of their children. There is always some doubt in the back of the mind, what if this happens or that happens. Tillie Olsen shows in her story “I Stand Here Ironing” the conflict and the results of one mother’s decisions. She illustrates the back, forth motion of the iron as the back and forth doubts in the mother’s mind. The detachment between mother and daughter in “I Stand Here Ironing” is understandable. The mother struggles daily with the decisions she made while her oldest child Emily was a young baby and toddler. Obstacles in Emily’s life have made it hard for her mother to forget these decisions, and life with Emily only reinforces these decisions.

I can kind of relate to this story, because I remember growing up on a dairy farm family and we lived in a big, drafty, old farmhouse, with a fireplace in the living room and heavy duty wood furnace in the cellar. I had to get up with my father and help get the fires going, before we went out to do the morning milking. I remember that the morning air was as cold as my relationship with my father. The child, parent relationship is a complicated one, because there are so many conflicting feelings and when we’re young, we might not understand these feelings. We do not understand our parents’ motivations, until we are older and able to understand what our parents have sacrificed for us.

I have read two stories from the Bible in which I am going to compare and contrast. One story is called “Cain and Abel” and the other is called “Parable of the Prodigal Son”. One similarity of the two are the overall moral of the stories. The moral of the stories is that jealous hearted people never prosper. One difference is, in “Cain and Abel” Cain first messed up when he decided that he wasn’t going to give God his best from the garden. In “Parable of the Prodigal Son” the older brother continued to do right by his father and did everything he was supposed to but he messed up when he grew jealousy in his heart. Last but not least, another similarity is that God never left the bad characters in each story when they went astray or did bad things.

This became clear when we purchased a nice house in the valley. We lived there for several years but along the way we faced many hardships that took a toll on my mother. My youngest brother got sick and had to have a kidney removed at 2 years old. At 5 years old he battled a very rare and life-threatening disease called Kawasaki (like the motorcycle.) The only doctors that could treat him were located at Cedar-Sinai. He is in the medical books for having survived the longest case recorded in history for this disease. It turned out that his stay at the hospital and treatment were a lot more expensive than we could have imagined. We could no longer afford our nice house and ended up moving into an apartment again. Eventually, the inconsiderate, alcoholic stepfather of mine messed up big time. I had to grow up and be a man at 12 years old and help my mom remove him from the house. He would continue to be in our lives for the sake of my youngest

The next parable of Luke is 12:13-34 which, focuses on greed and selfishness of humans. Jesus is speaking to a crowd and he addresses a person in the crowd and tells him Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” (Luke 12:13-34) The theme of money and selfishness continues through this parable Jesus is warning against the treachery of greed. Similarly, to Luke 19-21 this focuses on money, but less about the personal greed and the aftermath. It talks more about what you can do so that what happens to the rich fool does not happen to you. “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very

It has perceived that an adventure is invigorating and exciting with that being said, very rarely do you expect to die from an adventure. In the poem, “Death of a Young Son by Drowning,” by Margaret Atwood; the narrator takes us on an adventure from the start to the end. In the beginning of the poem, we are seeing that the infant in the poem is safely born and he is immediately set out to discover new places and new things. However, during that adventure, the boy drowns to death and is eventually put to rest after his body is found. The narrator that Atwood creates gives us a clear picture on how hard it is to navigate life and the adventure that comes with it.