like preaching. It’s an oratory method for effect. Sometimes, the wrath language serves as a wake-up call similar to the stench of manure and hunger pangs that finally caught the Prodigal’s attention. But, speaking analogously, does the father ever literally shove the pig paddies in the boy’s face? Did the father withhold his food until he verged on starvation? Not at all. Indeed, the punchline to his wake-up call comes as the father’s scandalous invitation to rejoin the family…the same invitation