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We’ve been looking this summer at the parables of Jesus, the stories he told while he was here on earth and what they reveal about God and what it means to know Him.  I think we’ve seen many of the same themes repeating themselves as we’ve looked at his parables – Jesus is often stressing the importance of loving and welcoming the outcast, and is often taking the religious leaders to task for poorly representing God through their self-righteousness and exclusionary tendencies.  In many ways this morning’s parable recalls some of those themes, but also reveals a lot about how we view following God.  Is the Christian life a joy or a chore to you?  Is there no place you’d rather be than with God, or do you daily wish you could forget God and go do your own thing?