If someone asked you what Jesus’s story of the prodigal son was all about, you’d probably say that it was about forgiveness, that it’s about God’s willingness to welcome almost anyone back to his heart no matter how far they had left God behind. And of course if you gave that answer you wouldn’t be at all wrong. If we take anything away from this story it’s that image of a son on the way home from far away, and the father running out to welcome him before he even got there. That is the way God is, always more eager to embrace us than we have any reason to…