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Namaste and welcome. In almost every spiritual and religious tradition, the word home has

a kind of special place, has a quality of really where we experience in a kind of sacred

way, the experience of connection or belonging.

John O'Donnell who puts it this way, he says, our life's journey is the task of refining

our belonging so that it may become more true, loving, good, and free.

In this reflection that we'll be doing together this evening, I'll be using the language

of homecoming, of discovering that belonging and having that belonging come alive for

us.

And I'll be drawing on probably the most famous parable in the world, which is the Christian

parable of the return of the prodigal son.

I've done a few different talks on it over the years and recently I had caused to come

back to this book by Henry Noon called the Return of the Provegal Son and I'm going

to leave it up front for those of you who would like to look at the picture on the front.

It's a fantastic book. It's been an amazing inspiration to me.

And so it's the interpretation of this parable that we'll be exploring just to remind some

of you that might not be that attuned to it.

In the story, the youngest son asked his father if his inheritance could be given out early.

In other words, split everything that's owed to him between his brother and himself.

And he took his portion, they left home and then he went to foreign lands and squandered

it.

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