The Beginning of a Modern Parable

It will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he began to go on his journey, but before he could leave, the mother of the servant who had been given one talent came to the man and said, “We need to talk about the way you treated my son.”