Lets get back to parables.
What is a parable? The 1828 Webster's dictionary (my personal favorite) describes a parable as a "fable or allegorical relation or representation of something in real life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction…" Those are pretty fancy words, especially for someone like me. So let me explain them to you through a story: There was a man with a hard heart. He was a soldier who had seen pain beyond understanding. He looked death in the eye many times. The sight of his dear friend being torn apart by a mine buried in the battlefield made him feel as though he was living in a nightmare, one that every moment he couldn't escape. One thing kept him going: his wife and unborn child. He was determined to get home to them and be the father that that child needed. Many months passed, and he kept going, his heart beating more for them every day. He imagined their reunion in his mind, and it kept him fighting. Finally, the day came; he was on his way home...