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Jun 2019
Covetousness
What's wrong with a little lust
For what I love to wish

?Does it equal happiness

What if I desire to be the tiniest camel
And walk through the eye of a needle
With a gold filled chalice

Should I strive to be poor
And not want more
Than to never give

To live in a shack
Rather than a palace

Shall I covet
And want more of it
To put a smile on my feckless face
Or be worth less

Am I so greedy
To want what I'm needing
To live

Covetousness
Then tell me what to wish
If there is no desire of this world
A man could kiss

If all the riches are in heaven
A hundred fold given
Then what are we doing
on this earth futilely living

;

For a man wants more
As his nature is attracting
What his flesh is asking
But tell me
What's so wrong
About wanting
What makes you happy

Now I ask
?What is money
Something everyone needs

Men say it's sweeter than honey

And as the offering plate
Passes me by
I covet the earnings

More than my pastor
JaxSpade
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     ---, Weeping willow, Ben's Oldies and Jules
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