Closing the Ohio CFO in 1961, Starr Daily draws five laws of prayer out of the prodigal son. They run from the boy’s first selfish “Give me” to the humbled “Make me as one of thy hired servants.” He reads the robe, the ring, the shoes, and the fatted calf as the father’s four gifts. The son rehearsed his repentance speech the whole way home, he notes, only to have his father’s arms cut it off.
