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8. No Stealing
You shall not steal. —Exodus 20:15 It is hard to imagine a society with no sanctions on taking for your own use what does not belong to you. Some have tried, but even the wildest flights of fancy cannot come up with a sustainable culture that has absolutely no regard for personal property. I think…
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Meditation on Psalm 131
Psalm 131 is only three verses, but the second verse has always nagged at me. But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. Why a weaned child? At first I thought it meant a child who had finished nursing. Clearly,…