The Prodigal's Sister by John Piper & Robert Doares

Author:John Piper & Robert Doares
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: The Gospels, Acts, Poetry, Jesus, Religion, Inspirational, Biblical Studies, Religious
ISBN: 9781581345292
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2003-10-08T22:00:00+00:00

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His daily rent: to keep the thieves Away and feed the swine. I’ll wait

Here if you like.” “You’ve been a great Help, sir, but you don’t need to stay.

I’ll be all right.Thank you, and may My father trouble you no more.

Come visit us. My father’s door

Is always open.” “Fare thee well,

Young lass. It was no trouble.Tell

Your father I will come someday.”

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She walked down toward the shed. He lay There on the leaves as still as death.

She wondered, as she watched, if breath Still came. His eyes were closed. His cheek Was dark and hollow, and the reek

Was foul. His fingernails were caked With dirt, and streaks of black soil snaked Across his rutted brow. His hair

Had not been washed for months. And there Were no shoes anywhere. His feet

Were bare, his ragged cloak replete With eaten holes. And in his sleep

He gripped a pouch he used to keep

The parchments that his father sent.

She kneeled beside his head and bent Down over him and kissed his cheek.

Incredibly there was no shriek

Or sudden jerk. He stared into

The face of Hahyaneta. “Who

Are you?” he said, and sat up in

His leaves. “Hi, Níq.You’ve gotten thin.”

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