“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

And you must not call anyone here on earth ‘Father’, because you have only the one Father in heaven.

Would any of you who are fathers give your son a stone when he asks for bread?

No human being then must separate what God has joined together.”

So he got up and started back to his father. “He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms round his son, and kissed him.

‘My son,’ the father answered, ‘you are always here with me, and everything I have is yours.

So he got up and started back to his father. “He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms round his son, and kissed him.

I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.

May God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace by means of your faith in him, so that your hope will continue to grow by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.