[Faith-talk] Humor: The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive, a retelling of the parable of the prodigal son.

[Kirt Manwaring]

Awesome!  Love it!

On 6/5/11, Alan Wheeler <awheeler65 at windstream.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> With all the intense debate, I figured I would, with the indulgence of the
> moderators, inject a bit of humor.
>
> I heard this yesterday at church and wanted to share it. It's the Prodigal
> son retold using alliteration.
>
> "The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive"
>
> "Feeling footloose, fancy-free, and frisky, this feather-brained fellow
> finagled his fond father into forking over his fortune. Forthwith, he fled
> for foreign fields and frittered his farthings feasting fabulously with
> fair-weather friends. Finally, facing famine, and fleeced by his fellows in
> folly, he found himself a feed flinger in a filthy farmlot. He fain would
> have filled his frame with foraged food from the fodder fragments.
>
> "'Fooey! My father's flunkies fare far fancier,' the frazzled fugitive fumed
> feverishly, frankly facing fact.
>
> "Frustrated from failure and filled with forebodings, he fled for his
> family.
>
> "Falling at his father's feet, he floundered forlornly. 'Father, I have
> flunked and fruitlessly forfeited further family favors. . .'
>
> "But the faithful father, forestalling further flinching, frantically
> flagged his flunkies to fetch forth the finest fatling and fix a feast.
>
> "But the fugitive's fault-finding frater, faithfully farming his father's
> fields for free, frowned at this fickle forgiveness of former falderal. His
> fury flashed, but fussing was futile.
>
> "His foresighted father figured, 'Such filial fidelity is fine, but what
> forbids fervent festivities? The fugitive is found! Unfurl the flags! With
> fanfare flaring, let fun, frolic, and frivolity flow freely, former failures
> forgotten and folly forsaken. Forgiveness forms a firm foundation for future
> fortitude.'"
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> "Grace is getting a high five from God even when you know yourself to be a
> sinner." Smuts Van Rooyen
> Seventh-day Adventist Kansas/Nebraska camp meeting
> Psalms 33:3 Psalms 150:5
>
>
> Alan Wheeler
> Lincoln, Nebraska
> awheeler65 at windstream.net
>
>
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