In my opinion, “parable” as a literary genre, is a form of telling the story which can encourage the readers to look for the hidden meaning in the story.  Parable can be a type of analogy or metaphor. In the LUKE 15, we can discover a group of three lost parables, which is “The lost sheep”, “The lost drachma” and “The lost son”. The first lost item is the lost sheep, the shepherd has one hundred sheep and he misses one of them. After searching, the shepherd finds it back. He is happy and telling his friends and neighbors to “rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost”. In “the lost sheep”, animal is a distinctive features in the parable. As well as “the lost sheep”, the woman tells her friends and neighbors that “Rejoice with me because I have found the drachma that I lost”. The inanimate object “drachma” is as a character. Jesus continues telling the story of “The lost son”. The father has two sons. One of them, a lost young man, repents to his kind father for the sinful things he does to his father. He father kisses him, forgives him and takes him home. For his son’s returning home, he orders the servants to celebrate it with a fattened calf. The father says about his son “he was lost and has been found” at the end of the story. What his son lost is his soul. However, he finds his way back home.  I understand that everyone will make mistakes even lost in our life. But if we realize we lost and come back in repentant, we will be welcome back.

I like the father in this story, not everyone can be acting like his father in the real life. Can we give a chance to the lost people to repent and change?