The celebration God has planned for our homecoming includes being restored as his child with all the rights and privileges of an inheritance. Humility has a lot to do with this story. It's a difficult thing to be humble when you're as great as we are, you know. Sometimes we have to get a lesson in humility the hard way. I've done things that I knew I deserved to get yelled at for, but the person who should yet, didn't.
Forgiveness is so blessedly humbling.
God calls us back home, particularly important, I think, for gay and lesbians. Heaven knows there's not a lot of welcoming in society, but God's welcome, love, and grace is without any condition. All it takes is turning around and going home. So he divided his property between them. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.