Descriptive Essay About Coming Home

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Coming Home

Years ago, a long time before somebody wrote the song, I read a story about a boy who had caused his parents a lot of heartache. He had done just about everything possible to bring grief to the hearts of his mother and his father. Finally, he left home and moved from one place to another until he was a great distance from home. For several years he lived a rebellious and low life.

Then, one day he came to himself, and began thinking about home and those thoughts were pleasant to him. That tells us a lot about that home doesn’t it? After he thought about his home for a while, he decided he wanted to go back home. He wanted that love that he had abandoned a long time back.

He wrote a letter to his mother and father and told them that he wanted to come home. He said, “I know that I have done wrong and I have hurt you. I’m sorry for that. I wish I could …show more content…

It could very well be the hardest thing a person will ever experience, but God wants you to come home more than you can know and there has never been a time when He didn’t want you to come back. He never stops watching and waiting, and longing for the day He will see one of His children coming home

For a number of years I have made my home in Arkansas’ largest city. I don’t know how many doors there are in Little Rock, but there are well over a hundred thousand. I could knock on almost any one of those doors late some night and when a voice from the other side asked, “Who is it?” and I spoke my name, they would say “We don’t know you, go

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