Their blessing isn’t your loss. God isn’t running out of good things to give.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

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.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose good news felt like it took something from you?

MORE IN FAITH, GRACE & PURPOSE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.