Emphasis Preaching Journal

A familiar story of E. Stanley Jones reveals the heart of a father. A man traveling on a train noticed a teenager who seemed in great distress. The boy looked out of the window, got up, walked up and down the aisle, looked anxiously out of the window again, and repeated the process over and over. Finally, the man said, "Son, you seem to be worried about something." "It's about my father. We had a violent quarrel a few weeks ago; he told me to leave home and never return. My mother has written me that Dad shows some signs of wanting me to come back.