Scene: Two brothers stare at one another angrily across a table in a solicitor’s office
Rhona Cathcart
August 08, 2025
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Luke 12: 13-15 (NIVUK)
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.’
14 Jesus replied, ‘Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?’ 15 Then he said to them, ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.’
Each brother has a solicitor beside him. One is whispering in his solicitor’s ear.
Solicitor 1: “My client emphatically rejects your client’s inadequate offer. As brothers they are surely entitled to an equal share.”
[brother 2 speaks into his solicitor’s ear)
Solicitor 2: “This may be so, but my client points out that their mother chose to leave everything to him”
[brother 1 speaks again angrily to his solicitor, who clearly rephrases his words more diplomatically]
Solicitor 1: “My client suggests that your client may have used undue influence.”
[brother 2 whispers angrily]
Solicitor 2: “My client points out that yours hasn’t been near their mother for three years.”
[more angry whispering]
Solicitor 1: “My client believes your client may have had something to do with that.”
[“My client/my client” goes back and forth accompanied by angry whispering, which builds to a crescendo]
My client…
My client…
My client….
My client…
Mine
Mine
MINE!
Prayer:
God, please stop
Stop our greed
Stop our hostility
Stop our demands
Stop us.
That we might start again.
Amen
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