God pleads with us to receive His gifts. God is like the father in the parable who can't do enough to make his wandering son feel welcome. Nor is it something that is exactly the same for everybody. God calls us to a relationship. Relationships can be broken off.
Relationships admit of varying degrees of intensity.
Reconciliation, therefore, is an ongoing project. We have to be attentive to it as a fundamental element in our lives. Otherwise we run the risk of being distracted by less important matters and of allowing the relationship to shrivel up and die. And we also have to work at deepening and strengthening it. Reconciliation is not an inert possession but a way of being in touch with God.