COMING TO YOURSELF

Luke 15:17 (NRSV) - But when he came to himself he said, '"How many of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!"

Engraving of the Prodigal Son as aswineherd
 by Hans Sebald Beham, 1538.(Wikipedia)

When you’ve wasted your life and you’ve wallowed in sin,  
        when you know it is folly to roam,
when you say to yourself, “What a fool I have been!”
        and you know that it’s time to go home,
when you you’re luck has run out and your friends are all gone,
        and you know in your heart you’ve been wrong,
you have come to yourself if you see the light dawn,
        and at last you know where you belong.
When your profligate bridges you’re ready to burn
        and your heart tells you what you must do,
you have come to yourself if you want to return
        to the Father who’s waiting for you.