where moth and rust destroy

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy (Matthew 6:19)

That's a common enough adage and moral lesson, but for some reason the portrayal of it in our current Colombian series was visually super affecting and got me thinking.

One of the secondary characters is an army officer, undercover in a mission to take down the supply portion of a drug operation, but he seems at times to have lost himself in his role, though he insists to one of the main characters that...
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Published on July 06, 2021 16:53
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CarolineFromConcord Hmm. In childhood, wanting to make a treasure map, I buried a favorite book. When we followed the map and dug up the book a long time later, it was all mildewed. One kind of lesson learned.


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Francesca Forrest If only the character in this series had done that as a child, he wouldn't have made this mistake with money!


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Francesca Forrest Also, how very cool that you didn't end up digging up the book until much later (despite the bad results)--and that your map actually worked to let you do so (and you didn't lose the map, etc.).


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