Prodigal

What I learned this Sunday at St. John's Episcopal Church in New Braunfels TX.  Prodigal doesn't mean what I thought it means.  The prodigal son wasn't the lost son who came home but the lavish living son who came home.  My oh my does that not change things.  I never really new what prodigal meant.

Definition of prodigal

adjective

• 1spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant:
  

• 2having or giving something on a lavish scale:
  

noun

• a person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way:
  
  
  
  
  • (also prodigal son or daughter) a person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but later makes a repentant return.

    [with biblical allusion to the parable in Luke 15:11–32]