Anthony and I read this book together. He loves it when I read to him before bed time.
It was a great book. Short and simple, but with a pretty powerful message about a man struggling to cope with a wayward son who learns to examine himself first.
I've read a few stories like this before - extended parables, so to speak - and I really enjoy them. The whole book is centered around a single verse of scripture, and the few chapters before and after it. It has so many deep insights out of so little initial information!
I love how the scriptures work like that. Take a single statement, and you could study it for hours on end! Entire reference works could be written about each and every chapter in the scriptures, I'm sure. It wouldn't be hard.
That is what makes the book so thought provoking. And even though it is a really short read, I've found that the book affected me in more ways than one. It wasn't just the message of the book, but more the content. I've found that in my own personal scripture study now I'm thinking a little bit more outside the box and applying the same principles toward other scriptures. It makes it so much more meaningful and enlightening.
It was so funny while I read, because a certain insight would hit me and I'd pause for a moment to think about it, which of course would make Anthony quickly exclaim, "hey, don't stop, I'm awake, I promise!"
Great book. And a big THANK YOU to my MIL for recommending it and buying it for us for Easter!
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