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Luke 15:11-32\u00a0<\/span>(MSG)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then he said, \u201cThere was once a man who had two sons. The younger said to his father, \u2018Father, I want right now what\u2019s coming to me.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo the father divided the property between them. It wasn\u2019t long before the younger son packed his bags and left for a distant country. There, undisciplined and dissipated, he wasted everything he had. After he had gone through all his money, there was a bad famine all through that country and he began to hurt. He signed on with a citizen there who assigned him to his fields to slop the pigs. He was so hungry he would have eaten the corncobs in the pig slop, but no one would give him any.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat brought him to his senses. He said, \u2018All those farmhands working for my father sit down to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death. I\u2019m going back to my father. I\u2019ll say to him, Father, I\u2019ve sinned against God, I\u2019ve sinned before you; I don\u2019t deserve to be called your son. Take me on as a hired hand.\u2019 He got right up and went home to his father.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out, embraced him, and kissed him. The son started his speech: \u2018Father, I\u2019ve sinned against God, I\u2019ve sinned before you; I don\u2019t deserve to be called your son ever again.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut the father wasn\u2019t listening. He was calling to the servants, \u2018Quick. Bring a clean set of clothes and dress him. Put the family ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Then get a grain-fed heifer and roast it. We\u2019re going to feast! We\u2019re going to have a wonderful time! My son is here\u2014given up for dead and now alive! Given up for lost and now found!\u2019 And they began to have a wonderful time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll this time his older son was out in the field. When the day\u2019s work was done he came in. As he approached the house, he heard the music and dancing. Calling over one of the houseboys, he asked what was going on. He told him, \u2018Your brother came home. Your father has ordered a feast\u2014barbecued beef!\u2014because he has him home safe and sound.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe older brother stalked off in an angry sulk and refused to join in. His father came out and tried to talk to him, but he wouldn\u2019t listen. The son said, \u2018Look how many years I\u2019ve stayed here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends? Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows up and you go all out with a feast!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHis father said, \u2018Son, you don\u2019t understand. You\u2019re with me all the time, and everything that is mine is yours\u2014but this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours was dead, and he\u2019s alive! He was lost, and he\u2019s found!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Human – Jon Bellion<\/strong><\/p>\n

I always fear that I’m not living right
\nSo I feel guilty when I go to church
\nThe pastor tells me I’ve been saved, I’m fine
\nThen please explain to me why my chest still hurts<\/p>\n

I spent four thousand on the Mart McFlys
\nYet I’m still petrified of going broke
\nThere’s someone gorgeous in my bed tonight
\nYet I’m still petrified that I’ll die alone<\/p>\n

I’m just so sick of being
\nI’m just so sick of being
\nhuman
\nI’m just so sick of being
\nI’m just so sick of being
\nOh na…<\/p>\n

My mother calls I have no time to talk
\nBut I can find the time to drink and smoke
\nTook 15 hits ’till I can barely walk
\nI threw up on the lawn, I can’t find my phone<\/p>\n

I got no nuts to tell the one I love
\nThat she’s the reason that I wrote this song
\nAnd that’s some coward shit I know it sucks
\nBut Lauren call me when you hear this song<\/p>\n

I’m just so sick of being
\nhuman
\nI’m just so sick of being<\/p><\/div>\n

human
\nI’m just so sick of being
\nI’m just so sick of being
\nOh na…<\/p>\n

See I got GPS on my phone
\nAnd I can follow it to get home
\nIf my location’s never unknown
\nThen tell me why I still feel lost
\nTell me why I still feel<\/p><\/div>\n

\nTell me why I still feel
\nTell me why I still feel
\nHuman<\/div>\n
\n

 <\/p>\n

Merciful Father<\/em>,<\/p>\n

you have created us in your image<\/em><\/p>\n

and called us, your creatures,<\/em><\/p>\n

to live out\u00a0your love, hope, and desires in your world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Absolve your people from their offences,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

that through your bountiful goodness<\/em><\/p>\n

we may be delivered from the chains of those sins.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Give us peace from our fears and frailty<\/em><\/p>\n

and give us hope in our struggle with\u00a0being human.<\/em><\/p>\n

Remind us that we are more than the sum of our failures and fleshly\u00a0desires.<\/em><\/p>\n

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