On Coveting and Contentment

It does not do us any good

To covet someone else’s lot

So each of us should give God thanks

And do the best with what we’ve got

To covet someone else lot

Is but to waste our gifted hours

If we look on another’s plot

We sadly miss our own sweet flowers

So each of us should give God thanks

For what we have; lest we despair

And thus neglect to humbly give

The glory to His loving care

…and do the best with what we’ve got

It is our duty, is it not?

How sad to miss life’s joy because

We covet someone else’s lot

© Janet Martin