Their blessing isn’t your loss. God isn’t running out of good things to give.
GRATITUDE
GRATITUDE
Comparison runs on bad arithmetic. It assumes a fixed pile, so every good thing landing on somebody else gets subtracted from whatever was coming to you, and the result is that you cannot enjoy your friend’s news. That subtraction never happened. God is not working from a limited stock that their acceptance letter just drained.
When the news lands, let good news stay good news for a day before measuring yourself against it. Say congratulations in person if you can. Then go ask for your own thing without guilt, because wanting something is not the same as begrudging someone theirs.
Whose good news felt like it took something from you?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.