The prodigal son – refresher

A while ago I posted some thoughts I had on the story of the prodigal son which is in Luke 15. In it I discussed the prodigal, the father and the people who lived in a far country. As I reread this chapter and think what amazing things are here? Such a simple story and yet it is filled with the never-ending source of instruction on God's heart and also on different ways people react to the "Father".
To refresh this story talks about the prodigal "which represents a sinner", of which Romans tells us that we all are. The prodigal desire to get away from his father and he goes to live with people were far from the father and is likely never had any desire to seek about.
So I have mentioned 3 of the 5 groups are characters in this story (I'm not sure it is a parable because Jesus started out with "a certain man had 2 sons") I believe from this that this actually happened. So when this story there are 3 main characters. The father, the prodigal son and the faithful son. There also to other groups that I think are worth mentioning and the 1st is the people in the far country. The 2nd is the father servants. Somehow I don't think any of these can be overlooked and we can find instruction in all 5. Most people know of the "prodigal" and now we returned to the father. Many people mention it but don't really know or have read the Bible that teaches about it.
While not looking into it today hoping to follow up later I hope to address the 2 missing groups from my 1st post. It was a few weeks ago so you may want to refresh yourself with. I hope to finish up my thoughts by the end of this week and hopefully I have enough ooph to get it done. Unfortunately I have to be in the right frame of mind to tie my breathing and my speech as well as proofread. Lately my voice software as been frustrating me every day. There are so many words I don't dare use and there are so many that I assume are simple words but they don't transcribe correctly. It takes a lot of work to correct either by the voice software or by the virtual keyboard. Well enough of my whining, I hope to take this up again soon.