Gods story and me

A lot of us have heard the saying, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” But do we truly understand what it means? Today, I want to go a little deeper. I want to paint a picture of how comparison can slowly pull you away from becoming the person you were created to be. I want to show you how staying trapped in comparison can rob you of the beauty of your own journey the beauty of being different, the beauty of taking a route that no one else has taken, and the beauty of discovering a life that was uniquely designed for you. I know it can be difficult. It can be heavy trying to trust the process when it seems like everyone around you is moving faster, achieving more, or living the life you imagined for yourself. But today, I want to encourage both you and me: free yourself from the shackles of comparison. Free yourself from constantly looking to the side and wondering what life would be like if you were someone else. Free yourself from the cage of wishing your story looked like everyon...

  In many days, we all curate a life that we want for ourselves. We paint a picture of how we see ourselves and how we envision ourselves. We build timelines in our minds, set expectations for our journeys, and silently assume that life will follow the script we’ve written. And I think one of our biggest fears is not just failure, but the possibility of a life that looks completely opposite of what we ever thought it would be. There’s something deeply unsettling about waking up and realizing that reality doesn’t match the vision we held so tightly. It can feel like rejection, like delay, like everything is slipping through our hands. But sometimes what we call rejection is actually redirection. And every closed door is not just an ending  it can also be an opening to a possibility we were never brave enough to imagine. I’m here, in this moment, next year, in a reflection of time, and I’m finally realizing that everything I’ve ever feared has somehow shown up in my life in o...