![]() ![]() ![]() When would he return? And when he did, could the family environment be the same? Watching him go was the most difficult moment of the father's life, knowing that his son wasn't prepared for life and that he wouldn't listen to him for instruction or wisdom. ![]() His son would learn life's hardest lesson no other way. But the father did it, with regret, but knowing it was the only thing that could be done. It would create a hardship to divide off his portion earlier than planned. The young man wanted his portion of inheritance to go out on his own and make an independent life. The father remembered the day his son left the family. But there was also the empty place created by the one who a long while back had chosen to leave and go far away from his home. When he failed to see what he'd hoped, he would turn and go about the business of the day. His thoughts were always the same-a mixture of longing, of hope and of regret. He always thought, and hoped, that he would see a familiar figure heading his way. As he did every day, the father walked from his home to the small hill where he could look down the road and see for several miles. ![]()
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