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FORTUITOUS FELICITATIONS or,

"The Prodigal Son in the Key of F"

(The following account is best when read out loud.) -

Feeling footloose, fancy free and frisky, a featherbrained fellow forced

his fond father to fork over his farthings. Fast he flew to foreign

fields and frittered his family's fortune, feasting fabulously with

floozies and faithless friends. Flooded with flattery he financed a

full-fledged fling of "funny foam" and fast food.

Fleeced by his fellows in folly, facing famine, and feeling faintly

fuzzy, he found himself in a feed-flinger in a filthy foreign farmyard.

Feeling frail and fairly famished, he feign would have filled his frame

with foraged food from the fodder fragments.

"Phooey," he figured, "my father's flunkies fare far fancier," the

frazzled fugitive fumed feverishly, facing the facts. Finally,

frustrated from failure and filled with foreboding (but following his

feelings) he fled from the filthy foreign farmyard. Faraway, the father

focussed on the fretful familiar form in the field and flew to him and

fondly flung his forearms around the fatigued fugitive. Falling at his

father's feet, the fugitive floundered forlornly, "Father, I have

flunked and fruitlessly forfeited family favour."

Finally, the faithful Father, forbidding and forestalling further

flinching, frantically flagged the flunkies to fetch forth the finest

fatling and fix a feast.

Faithfully, the father's first-born was in a fertile field fixing fences

while father and fugitive were feeling festive. The foreman felt

fantastic as he flashed the fortunate news of a familiar family face

that had forsaken fatal foolishness. Forty-four feet from the farmhouse

the first-born found a farmhand fixing a fatling. Frowning and finding

fault, he found father and fumed, "Floozies and foam from frittered

family funds and you fix a feast following the fugitive's folderol?"

The firstborn's fury flashed by fussing was futile. The frugal

firstborn felt it was fitting to feel "favoured" for his faithfulness

and fidelity to family, father and farm. In foolhardy fashion, he

faulted the father for failing to furnish a fatling and feast for his

friends. His folly was not in feeling fit for feast and fatling for

friends; rather his flaw was in his feeling about the fairness of the

festival for the found fugitive. His fundamental fallacy was in

fixation on favouritism, not forgiveness.

Any focus on feeling "favoured" will fester and friction will force the

faded facade to fall. Frankly, the father felt the frigid firstborn's

frugality of forgiveness was formidable and frightful. But the

father's former faithful fortitude and fearless forbearance to forgive

both fugitive and firstborn flourishes.

The farsighted father figured, "Such fidelity is fine, but what forbids

fervent festivity for the fugitive that is found? Unfurl the flags and

finery, let fun and frolic freely flow. Former failure is forgotten,

folly is forsaken. Forgiveness forms the foundation for future

fortune." Four facets of the father's fathomless fondness for faltering

fugitives are:

1. Forgiveness

2. Forever faithful friendship

3. Fadeless love, and

4. A facility for forgetting flaws.

Fantastic!!