Yes, wearing dry clothes has become a luxury, since the climate is quite humid and the mornings filled with must and fog. Draping wet clothes after being washed in sink or shower do not dry overnight. Heat is a rarity so I sleep fully clothed with my jacket on.

I came up with the idea of hanging a clothes line across each room I stay, draping the wet clothes over a clothes line, allowing them to dry more easily. I couldn’t find a clothes line anywhere. The store I purchased my new walking poles didn’t have any clothes lines for camping but I found a package of bungy cords with hooks at the ends that could be connected, lengthening the line. It worked!!!! And I remembered to purchase close pins!!

In today’s gospel, Jesus commended the dishonest steward for making a bad situation work out. He did so by lessening the debt that debtors owed his master. The steward was hired to be a good manager of the master’s products to be lent out, with a price, of course. But he appropriated what wasn’t his by stealing. Sound familiar??? Jesus commends his ingenuity, even though it was very dishonest.

This steward just lessened what each person owed, getting in their good graces, ingratiating himself, so that they might help him out after being fired. Jesus loves this guy’s wit and worldly wisdom. I made a bad situation work out for me not in any dishonest but it did have some worldly wisdom about it. The two clerks who were helping me thought my idea was great. Such a little thing to be so happy about.