Friday, February 29, 2008

Lent, and comparing ourselves to others

Some great thoughts from Elizabeth Foss. An excerpt:

Today, set aside time to sit quietly with your husband and to discern what God wants for your household, then surround yourself only with things which encourage you, educate you, and build you up. Resolve to spend not one minute more reading or watching anything that causes you to compare yourself to someone else unfavorably and to ultimately become discouraged. Magazines and blogs are staged re-creations of real life. There is no way to convey to the reader the intricacies of exactly how any life is lived. And that's just fine. Because God calls each of us to our own unique mission and, while we can and should share freely, no one’s mission looks exactly like anyone else's.

If you've ever struggled with the tendency to compare your parenting to everyone else's, read the whole thing.

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