We have to stop comparing our progress to anyone else's.
This is your financial journey, your marriage, your life.
HJ has been learning how to ride a bike. She has a pink bicycle with training wheels.
We were on a ride on our country road tonight.
She got off her bike and told me she was jealous I was faster than her. She blamed her bike. She blamed the road. She blamed me.
But this is what really stuck out for me:
She got off her bicycle. That she was learning to ride. To tell me that she was wasting time comparing her journey to where I’m at as an adult who has been riding bicycles since God was a teenager.
Guys, we do this all the time.
Comparing ourselves to the “fake rich” neighbors with the big houses with the garage workshops and the jet skis in the driveway, that someone else’s RV starts with a “2” in the model year and your RV was manufactured during the Reagan administration, that another couple in your life group appears to be further along in their financial security than you are.
Remember 1 Timothy 6:6, 7 - “...godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it…”
Comparison is the thief of joy. Get on your journey. Stay on your journey. Let everyone else worry about themselves.
And please come to Warsaw and teach my strong-willed child how to ride her bicycle.
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