Sunday Thought 12

How we all want more! It can be so hard to be content with what we have. We see our neighbors and friends with things – a new car, a nice house, a beautiful garden, a great vacation. And a little bit of envy creeps in. It’s hard to stay in budget when everyone around us isn’t staying within theirs! But envy or covetousness is a cruel master – it is never satisfied. It always wants more, and in the end, it can consume us. The news is filled with individuals who all wanted a little bit more and now it is destroying them (think Ed Mcmahon among many others). Contentment is priceless.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Bible, Exodus 20:17)