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Simply No Comparison

Each person should test their own work and be happy with doing a good job and not compare themselves with others.

—Galatians 6:4

From your first day at school, you were compared with others. You may have heard your teacher remarking about how well some other kid could draw, or you may have heard your parents compare you to your siblings. You discovered there were kids who were more praised than you were because they could read or they could play the piano. You learned you might not be good enough for the world, and you were only six years old.

You moved on to high school and college, doing your best to be yourself. You looked at others and envied the ones with the brains or the charm or the beauty and wished you could be more like them. You went on to work and discovered that the comparisons hadn’t stopped. The person who had the job before you was beloved. You looked for a life partner, only to find out that people were chosen for a lot of superficial reasons.

Where does it stop? When does it happen that you can be totally happy being yourself, being uniquely the person God wanted you to be? The answer is right now! Right now, you can stop all the stories in your head about what else you should, could, or would be, and simply be a person where there is no comparison, because you are fabulous just as you are!

Accept that you are totally the person you were meant to be.

IN THE QUIET OF THE DAY

Lord, thank you for making me unique. Help me have confidence in all that I am and try to not compare myself to others. Thanks for loving me so much. Amen.