Redeeming The Time

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is read on the first of three Sundays that we read "By the Waters of Babylon," Psalm 136, as preparation for Great Lent. There are great similarities between these, and it is instructive to compare them. Both show some of the critical aspects of repentance and victorious living: awareness of our true condition, anger, and action energized by our anger.