The comparison game

I have several blogs that I follow, most are dear friends. Only a couple are strangers I've come across through a friend's blog here and there. But I have to be very careful. When I am reading the words of people I don't know personally, it is so easy to play the comparison game. It's so easy to take their words and compare their isolated stories, outside of the context of their day to day life and personality, to my own seemingly insignificant or struggling self and wish I were somewhere else in my journey.

Bottom line, when I start to feel like I just don't measure up to my friends or these people I read about, that's when I know I need to quit reading and get living! My life is amazing. I am exactly who I need to be and where I'm supposed to be and loving on who I'm supposed to be loving on! God is not disappointed with me (or you, for that matter). And life is so full of little moments that make up great, big, "little" moments that I have to remember to be all here, wherever "here" is at the moment. There's a million people I could be loving on, and hundreds of places I could be tonight. But I'm right here in Strathmore, California doing exactly what the choices of my life and God's gracious hand has led me to. And with that, tonight I will be content. Maybe the million people and hundred places will show up in my golden years! :-)

So join me in agreeing to quit reading and get living when the pull of comparison hits you. All we really need to do is snuggle up with Abba for a minute, hear how He feels about us, and we're right back on track! Goodnight!