These guys had a weed business, but there was a lot of competition, so they decided not just sell the marijuana, but deliver it, there's nobody doing that!

The reason there was is because it was illegal deliver it.

But these guys didn't give up, they got creative.

They opened up a cannabis detective agency.

Call them up, tell them where you lost your weed, what kind it was, and how much you lost, and the detectives would go out, find it, bring it to you, and charge you a finder's fee.

When the cops came to arrest them, they first had to admit this was pretty freaking clever.

We get an old-timey version of this in Sunday's gospel about a dishonest manager who acts just as shrewdly.

These are stories about getting stuck, and finding a way out - when there are seemingly intractable situations, like the war in Gaza, and the split between right and left in American politics today.

Jesus is trying to teach us that we need to get creative, we need to have faith, there is a way out.

I don't care about the apathy and the hopelessness out there, if those weed sellers and a dishonest manager did not give up and throw in the towel and found a way to break through the log jam, I think we can use our imagination, intelligence, and creativity to find a way out of ours too.

See you Sunday