Passive No More: 10 Days To Purposeful Living

If you let it, comparison will invade any goal you set for yourself and tell you that even if you succeed, you still won’t be as good as they are. I struggle with this on a daily basis.   I don’t know about you, but comparing my life to others has never done anything but make me feel “less than.” Even this morning, as I was praying, I felt like the Lord was telling me, “Don’t compare yourself with others today.”  Turns out He was warning me. I dropped my 4-year-old son off at school today. It was the day of his Valentines party, and every child brought a decorated box from home to carry all the valentine cards they would receive from their classmates. We had Joshy’s valentines all done and in his little box that was decorated in red with lots of stickers he likes. He got to class and he pulled his little decorated box out of his backpack (because it fit in his backpack). Did I mention “little box”? He took it over to where all the other children’s boxes were lined up. These boxes were amazing. They were way b