The Prodigal Manager, facing the sack for squandering his landowner boss's profits, asked himself, "What will I do now? I'm not strong enough to lift and I'm too proud to beg." It was a moment of desolation that became for him, an epiphany. For, realising that he had nothing to lose, he gambled on a plan which, if it worked, would make his chastened boss look good again and would make the poor tenant farmers feel even better.

A talk for The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, 25 September 2022.

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