I WILL ARISE!(Son, Servant and Friend)

I looked around me and thought I needed more.

Tired of all that was ordinary, in vanity I  wanted more.

Although I had all I really needed, I thought I was in poverty and imagined a world outside of this loving pen.

A deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance were my new best friends.

I should have pursued wisdom and humility for a well tended foundation, but I thought I knew better and so off I went in my quest for more.

Working and wasting my life with nothing but an empty shell as my reward. I beheld life's chilling reality. A living hell I found and wondered how I got here?

Awoken every morning to the sounds of goats and swines all about me. No one bothered to help me even if they could. The pigs were now my only companions; Their food and daily portions now a delight.

"What debasement" I thought to myself every morning. My condition the consequence of warped imagination and a poorly considered way.

I wished for more and got much more than I bargained for.

Then I came to my senses. " My daddy is rich and rewards even the least of his slaves"

I a son, as prodigal as I may be, can definitely hope for much more within his household.

I know my daddy's heart. He is tender and kind. He is fair, just and tender to all.

I have more to hope for and much more to gain if only I can once again abide under my daddy's roof.

To my daddy I must go and with him all is well.

I will now arise and go up to my father and I will say to him, "I am not worthy to be called your son, though that is all I truly want to be.

If only you will make me a servant, that would be better than this hell but if it pleases you, make me your son, servant and friend.

I arise!.