You who are faithful, you are my blessed children. I have watched you toil; I have seen your tenacity. Even those who are starting anew, let this be a time of new beginnings. You have fallen down but I will lift you up. Can you begin again? Do you have the strength? Let me bear you up. Allow me to carry your burden. Rest and be strengthened.
It is worth the journey to return to my fold for I will call for a feast and kill the fatted calf. I will place the ring of sonship on your finger. I will receive you into my family. Where I am you will be also. I am a God of mercy and forgiveness. I have removed your sin as far as the east is from the west. Be reconciled and turn from the way of destruction.
My mercies are new every morning.
“It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.”
Lamentations 3: 22-25
“And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe, and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet: And bring here the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.”
Luke 15: 21-24