Louise felt she could follow most of the Ten Commandments, but the last one—"Thou shalt not covet" ^{Ex. 20:17;} —wasn't as easy as the others. She wasn't even sure she understood it.

Her teacher in the Christian Science Sunday School stressed that each one of the commandments is important because each has a healing message. So Louise trusted divine Love to show her the meaning of the tenth commandment.

One night as she was washing her hair, she began to notice that her sisters had very beautiful hair. Her admiration bordered on envy. Under the soft lamplight Judy's hair was as fair as buttercups in the meadow, and Pat's was a rich velvety brown.

"Why can't I have hair like theirs?" she asked her mother. "My hair is so uninteresting; it's not fair and it's not dark."

"But isn't it wonderful that your hair shines?" her mother replied with a twinkle.

The answer momentarily lifted Louise from her sense of inferiority, but she and her mother knew there must be a satisfying and lasting answer.

Later that evening as Louise was preparing for bed, she and her mother read through the tenth commandment: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." After some discussion Louise saw that it meant not to want another's things or to be envious of what another has or is. She shouldn't even be envious of another's beauty but learn to express more beauty herself.

Divine Love is the only source of life. God loves man and gives man all good. So when someone has something good, it can be seen as an evidence of good, of God's love. And because God loves every idea, His love isn't limited to a special few but is available for all to enjoy and experience. Mrs. Eddy puts it this way in Science and Health: "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals" ^{Science and Health, p. 13;}

Louise began to see that wanting what another has, or longing for another individual's manifestation of good closed her thought to the fullness and wholeness of Love—and to what Love was giving to her. If her thought was closed to the allness of Love and the goodness of God, she would, in effect, be cutting herself off from good. If someone offered her a present, she wouldn't reach out for it with a closed hand. The hand must be open to receive the gift.

So Louise needed to open her thought wide to Love's boundless provision for each one and learn to rejoice in another's good. It wasn't necessary for her to have hair exactly like her sisters' in order to enjoy its beauty. She could enjoy it without having it as a personal possession, for any manifestation of loveliness is not a personal possession to be envied, coveted, or even to be proud of. And she could open her eyes to the beauty God was expressing through her own individuality.

Louise began to glimpse that all evidences of good, whether manifested in her neighbor's experience or in her own, are signs of God's loving care, and can be appreciated and loved. God gives beauty, as Christ Jesus said, even to the wild flowers.

She found that she was able to appreciate her sisters' beauty without any sense of envy, and the results were wonderful. She stopped feeling left out and inferior, and was truly happy and satisfied. Because she wasn't coveting, she expressed more beauty herself. Then a physical condition that she'd had was healed. Divine Love had illumined the tenth commandment, and her obedience to it had brought healing.

In lifting her thought to God, the source of all good, Louise had learned the true meaning of these lines from the Christian Science Hymnal: