maybe I don’t have to tell you. Maybe you already know from your own experience as a father. Yet we need to put ourselves into the parable and take the role first of the son, and then of the father, and see what Jesus is telling us. We have to be prepared to forgive often, because we’re here on earth in a communion of clumsy saints. Our kids aren’t the only ones who go around breaking rules and breaking vases. In our own ways, you and I do, too; and when we do, we ache for forgiveness, understanding