Coming to our senses

One of the key phrases we find is that the younger son "came to his senses". There are those moments in all our lives where we see more clearly than we did the moment before. This event seems to happen to us rather than something we will on our own. However it happens, what is critically important is how we respond to those moments. Are we willing to make the shifts necessary when confronted with the reality of the moment, or is it easily simply to fall back into our bias and delusions? Repentance is the courage to make the right choices when we "come to our senses". Repentance sets us on a journey where we are stripped of self and presented with the forgiveness of God. Repentance brings us into the preferred future that God has designed us for. Repentance turns us completely around and sets us on the course we should of been in the first place. May we not pass up those opportunities where we "come to our senses".