"To put it most simply, God is God, the Absolute Reality, Infinite Perfection, more massively real than the universe itself and more worthy than all the ideals together ever conceived by all human minds. If God is not this, then God is not God. Thus, we should pray because prayer is the most realistic thing in the world to do. It is our acknowledgment of reality, our right response to reality, our honesty with reality."

When the prodigal returns to his father in the story that Jesus tells (Luke 15:11ff) he's not expecting much, but to be one of the servants. He knows that even being a servant on his father's farm is better than anything he's experiencing in the "distant country." What do suppose his deep response is to the sight of old father running down the road to meet him? Think he stopped and let the father come? I suppose that he was overwhelmed with a sense love and compassion from his father and couldn't wait to be in his embrace. He's running to us...
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