For Lent, I’m doing the Hallow challenge of 40 days of prayer. Today’s talk was given by Fr Mike Schmidt. It was about the titles we give ourselves. He told the story of the prodigal son and his brother’s response to their father’s reaction to the return of the younger. Fr said the elder had reduced himself to the position of a slave, not recognizing his position in his father’s eyes. Fr ended by asking what my title would be.
Recently I’ve been remembering my brokenness and shame. It’s as if my past is trying to drag me down to that low point where I was lost, unloved, bitter, shamed. It has been a constant struggle to remember the price that was paid for my salvation.
But Fe Mike is right. I can’t live my life by the title I gave myself. I was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.
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