Turn my heart to your decrees, and not to selfish gain. Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; give me life in your ways.
Psalms 119:36‭-‬37 NRSV

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Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:8‭-‬10 NRSV

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As we manage another heatwave, thinking about creation and how we care for it as we see nature’s harvest and the fields yielding their grain, we thought about our place and our lives. What we possess and what we own drives us and maintains the economy that keeps us served. But how are we to live when our culture is so bound up in vanities? What we bin here is out of sight and out of mind.

Living life to the full is complex. We are to take joy and pleasure in the now, but there are consequences. Loving ourselves, caring for ourselves, was something we pondered and caring for where we live and each other.

We are blessed with a fruitful land and may not be wealthy, but we have enough.