Every year, was a big deal, a holiday of epic proportions, for the grabowski family. (2) grandma invited the whole family to her house in andersonville each year. (3) cousin tom made his homemade bread and stuffing, along with mashed potatoes. (4) his sister marybeth prepared chicken soup that everyone enjoyed along with trays of vegetables and dips. (5) some years, more than twenty people showed up, and everyone carried an appetite, so there had to be an abundance of food on the table. (6) the table looked like a fancy buffet at a restaurant, covered with fragrant apple pies, steaming and juicy turkey, and sizzling hot sweet potatoes. (7) people ate and talked and had a lot of fun all through the afternoon, and most of them were asleep on the couches by eight o'clock. 127 words, 9.2 flesch, 1090 lexile which sentence most effectively uses sensory descriptions? a) sentence 2 b) sentence 4 c) sentence 6 d) sentence 7

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).

roses are red,

violets are black,

for what you said,

i hope you sit on a big fat tack.