God runs where we scarcely limp

... it is not right to go back and open up some ancient wound that the Son of God Himself died trying to heal..."
Jeffery R Holland

The prodigal son was resolved to come, yet he was half afraid. But we read that his father ran. Slow are the steps of repentance but swift are the feet of forgiveness. God can run where we can scarcely limp. And if we are limping toward him, he will run toward us. Though the father was out of breath, he was not out of love.  
Charles Surgeon

Because we are eternal beings. Endings are merely interruptions, a temporary pause in our eternal progression, which will one day seem small in the eternal joy waiting for us. 

Dieter F. Uchdorf