Song of a Common-Day Prodigal

I wrote this song as a modern-day message to and for prodigals. We all know them (or are one). Whether it is a child who made the decision to walk away from the way we raised them, a friend or family member who walked away, or even if it is just we, ourselves, going through a season we are not at our spiritual best: where there is still life, there is more often than not, still hope.

Most people are at least semi-familiar with the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15. If you are not, go give it a read. He did what Esau did in the Old Testament: sold his soul for a bowl of soup, so to speak. The focus was not just that he was foolish, focused on on all the wrong things, and had a really bad attitude. It was that he was willing to take from people who truly cared about him, abandon them, and waste it on people who did not care if he lived or died. He wanted to live by what was admired by worldly standards and do things his way without all the bothersome boundaries. And as it always happens in the end, the brick wall was hit, he came to his senses, and returned to his roots. If you are one of those prodigals, the simple message Jesus and His original followers preached was, "Repent." Any given day, any given moment, you can decide to do a 180 and begin to take steps back toward Jesus.