(May 2, 2014)
The obligation not to covet seems out of place in the preeminent Ten Commandments written by the hand of the Lord on tablets of stone. After all, we all understand that murder is wrong, but what is so wrong about covetousness? But we feel like that because we are a people and a culture so consumed with covetousness that we cannot imagine life without it. But the minor nature of this commandments in our eyes, far from being a reason to disregard it, is rather a call to more strictly heed it as an area of our spiritual development which we have allowed to atrophy. The vary fact that it seems minor is cause for us to recognize we have lost sight of its significance.
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