When a man is covered in pig poop, surrounded by swine, and one step away from devouring a healthy handful of slop, it makes him stop and think, “Where did I go wrong?” This is the question so often asked at the end of a road of broken lives and shattered dreams. Arriving at this destination begs the question, is there a second chance. Is there a clean slate, a do over? Or is life a one shot deal, in which one must play the hand they are dealt, regardless of its out come.

More often than not, human beings suffer from the consequences of their own actions as a result of violating certain moral and ethical codes. This is exactly what happens in the gospel of Luke, with the parable of the prodigal son. According to Jesus Christ, the teller of the story, the Prodigal son ends up broken and destitute as a result of leaving his father’s household, thus leaving behind his father’s protection, provision, and wisdom. This represents Christian belief of what sin is, Sin is not only the commission specific actions, but also one’s refusal to obey, and follow God. In short sin is anything that is not in God’s will. As result of sin one steps

Looking at the pig slop, with his heart aching for something more, the parable says, “that he came to his senses”. The Prodigal son not only realizes his past, but he realizes his future. Something had to change, for he could not go on living a pig’s life. As hard as it was he needed to swallow his pride and admit that he was wrong. He now understood what he needed was a second chance, but how? So the prodigal son began to remember his father’s house, and came to understand how even the servants there where treated better than he was being treated. Understanding that the past could not be changed, but the future was yet to be lived, he sets out to seek his second chance back at his father’s house, with his father’s protection, provision, and wisdom.

With a repentant heart the prodigal makes his way up the father’s drive way. While he was a long way off the father spotted him and began to run toward him. As a result of the prodigal’s humility and repentance, mercy came running down the drive way into his life. The father gives his son a second chance, restoring him to the family and preparing a feast for him. The prodigal’s older brother, who had stayed with the father remaining faithful and working for what he had, grew angry with the return of his brother and questioned his brother’s worth. When criticized by his oldest son the father replied, “My son was dead, but now he is alive”.

Of all the desires of man perhaps the most desired would be a second ch

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