It is Time to Leave the Pig Pen and Return Home to the Father

Eastern Christian Insights

The coming Lenten season calls us all to come to ourselves as we gain a clearer recognition of the ways in which we have refused to live as the beloved sons and daughters of our Father. By humbly reorienting our lives toward him and away from slavery to our passions, we will find restoration, blessing, and joy. Now is the time to leave behind the filth and misery of the pigpen and to enter by grace into the joy of a heavenly banquet that none of us deserves.