September 19, 2010

Our gospel today is another one of Jesus’ parables and this one, The Dishonest Steward may be the most puzzling of all. A rich man has a steward, an employee, and he finds out this employee has been embezzling from him. So he tells him, all right, we’re going to do an audit. The employee knows his time is up, so what does he do? Does he try to repay the amount he took? Does he hit the road? No, he goes back to the customers, and tries to cut sweetheart deals for them, thinking that maybe they’ll be kind to him after he’s thrown out by his boss. So now he’s cheated his boss twice. And what does the boss do? He says, “Good job, you’re quite a sly fellow.”

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