The Prodigal Son - in the Key of FFeeling footloose and frisky, a featherbrained fellow forced his father to
Fleeced by his fellows in folly, facing
famine, and feeling faintly fuzzy, he
found himself a feed-flinger in a filthy
foreign farmyard. Feeling frail and
fairly famished, he fain would have filled
his frame with foraged food from
the fodder fragments.
"Fooey," he figured, "my father's
flunkies
fare far fancier," the frazzled
fugitive fumed feverishly, facing the
facts. Finally, frustrated from
failure and filled with foreboding (but
following his feelings) he fled from
the filthy foreign farmyard.
Faraway, the father focused on the
fretful
familiar form in the field and
flew to him and fondly flung his forearms
around the fatigued fugitive.
Falling at his father's feet, the fugitive
floundered forlornly, "Father, I
have flunked and fruitlessly forfeited
family favor."
Finally, the faithful Father,
forbidding
and forestalling further flinching,
frantically flagged the flunkies to fetch
forth the finest fatling and fix a
feast.
Faithfully, the father's first-born was
in a fertile field fixing fences
while father and fugitive were feeling
festive. The foreman felt fantastic
as he flashed the fortunate news of a
familiar family face that had forsaken
fatal foolishness. Forty-four feet
from the farmhouse the first-born found a
farmhand fixing a fatling.
Frowning and finding fault, he found
father
and fumed, "Floozies and foam
from frittered family funds and you fix
a feast following the fugitive's
folderol?" The first-born's fury
flashed, but fussing was futile. The frugal
first-born felt it was fitting to feel
"favored" for his faithfulness and
fidelity to family, father, and
farm.
In foolhardy fashion, he faulted the
father for failing to furnish a fatling
and feast for his friends. His folly
was not in feeling fit for feast and
fatling
for friends; rather his flaw was
in his feeling about the fairness of the
festival for the found fugitive.
His fundamental fallacy was a fixation
on favoritism, not forgiveness. Any
focus on feeling "favored" will fester
and friction will force the faded
facade to fall. Frankly, the father
felt the frigid first-born's frugality
of forgiveness was formidable and
frightful.
But the father's former
faithful fortitude and fearless
forbearance
to forgive both fugitive and
first-born flourishes.
The farsighted father figured, "Such
fidelity
is fine, but what forbids
fervent festivity for the fugitive that
is found? Unfurl the flags and
finery, let fun and frolic freely flow.
Former failure is forgotten, folly is
forsaken. Forgiveness forms the foundation
for future fortune."
Four facets of the father's fathomless
fondness for faltering fugitives are:
1)
Forgiveness
2) Forever
faithful friendship
3) Fadeless
love, and
4) A
facility
for forgetting flaws