UPFRONT July 16, 2007 Issue

'No fair!' no more

DANIS COLLETT MUTCHLER, SENIOR DESIGNER

Major or minor, unfairness always sits wrong with us—because it is wrong! But this week's issue goes deep into why we don't have to live with injustice or inequity, and how everyone can experience the universal "very good" of God's creation.

Here's a small example. I remember a time when I really had nothing to complain about. I had a good husband, a happy baby, a comfortable apartment, and a productive graphic design business. But then I made a new friend who was also a designer. Whenever I asked what she'd been up to, it was always something like, "Oh, I just got back from designing a theatre set in Paris." Or, "I was just in Brazil designing jewelry for Nieman Marcus." No fair! Her life was so exotic, and I was stuck changing diapers and working for worthwhile but unglamorous clients within a ten-mile radius. How do you even get a life like hers? I thought.

One day when she was telling me about her latest assignment, and I was (smilingly) consumed with envy, I suddenly heard a command in my head, as if from a drill sergeant: "Thou shalt not covet!"

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