The Father's Warm Embrace
September 11, 2016
by King Paul Vincent Rodil,
by King Paul Vincent Rodil,
Poster by Dominic Dimapawi
THE PRESENCE of our parents is one of the most soothing and securing feelings there is. Whenever we are weary, they take us under their wing to make us feel safe and assure that everything will be okay because they are with us, to protect us from any harm. Our Father is the perfect model that exemplifies unconditional love for one's children. Every one of us are the same in the eyes of the Father.
We are as important as the air that we breathe and as the water that we drink. According to the Gospel of Luke, there is a shepherd that lost one of his one-hundred sheep and sets out to find it. When he finally found it, he felt great joy. He shared the news to his friends that he found his lost sheep and said that it is right to celebrate its return. For what has been lost, has now been found. Nothing could make the Almighty Father happier than a lost child finding its way back home and seek refuge to him.
His love for us is unexplainable, unmeasurable and unending for it is His eternal grace that we will forever endure to all of us . In the gospel, there is the story of The Prodigal Son wherein a son asked his father to give him his inheritance and eventually left home. The son spent all of his money on vices and ended up working in a farm as a stable-hand. The son soon realized his mistake and decided to go back to his father’s house to ask for forgiveness. His father quickly embraced him and said that his son that was once lost, has now been found. All of us, his children, have special places beside him.
Even though we tend to stray away from the path that He prepared for us, God is always willing to forgive us and help us get back to him. The Almighty Father does not ever leave us. He is always beside us without us even noticing, for He is never gone. In the book Jeremiah, 31:3, “The LORD appeared to us in the past saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” His love for His children knows no bounds, knows no limits and knows no exhaustion for it is one of the many things that He cannot and would not stop doing.
In this we pray the song, Hosea:
Come back to me with all your heart. Don’t let fear keep us apart. Trees do bend, though straight and tall; so must we to others’ call. Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.
The wilderness will lead you to your heart where I will speak. Integrity and justice with tenderness you shall know. Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.
You shall sleep secure with peace; faithfulness will be your joy. Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.
This week, let us try to go back to Him. Have a blessed week everyone!
We are as important as the air that we breathe and as the water that we drink. According to the Gospel of Luke, there is a shepherd that lost one of his one-hundred sheep and sets out to find it. When he finally found it, he felt great joy. He shared the news to his friends that he found his lost sheep and said that it is right to celebrate its return. For what has been lost, has now been found. Nothing could make the Almighty Father happier than a lost child finding its way back home and seek refuge to him.
His love for us is unexplainable, unmeasurable and unending for it is His eternal grace that we will forever endure to all of us . In the gospel, there is the story of The Prodigal Son wherein a son asked his father to give him his inheritance and eventually left home. The son spent all of his money on vices and ended up working in a farm as a stable-hand. The son soon realized his mistake and decided to go back to his father’s house to ask for forgiveness. His father quickly embraced him and said that his son that was once lost, has now been found. All of us, his children, have special places beside him.
Even though we tend to stray away from the path that He prepared for us, God is always willing to forgive us and help us get back to him. The Almighty Father does not ever leave us. He is always beside us without us even noticing, for He is never gone. In the book Jeremiah, 31:3, “The LORD appeared to us in the past saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” His love for His children knows no bounds, knows no limits and knows no exhaustion for it is one of the many things that He cannot and would not stop doing.
In this we pray the song, Hosea:
Come back to me with all your heart. Don’t let fear keep us apart. Trees do bend, though straight and tall; so must we to others’ call. Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.
The wilderness will lead you to your heart where I will speak. Integrity and justice with tenderness you shall know. Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.
You shall sleep secure with peace; faithfulness will be your joy. Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.
This week, let us try to go back to Him. Have a blessed week everyone!
King Paul Vincent Rodil is the choirmaster of the Koro Beato, Pax Romana AB Unit's
homegrown choir. He is at his second year in AB History.
homegrown choir. He is at his second year in AB History.