Tag: comparison

Let’s Stop Comparing

I saw a sign that said, “Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 20.” I needed those words. I wanted to be the virtuoso singer who spent countless years training her voice and I was comparing the voice I had in my church’s choir. I wanted to be the exemplary homemaker whose home…

By Donna Wuerch Noble April 18, 2024 Off

Are You Contented?

I’d like you to believe that “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am in, to be content.” (Philippians 4:11) That means we are satisfied with the life or situation we are in. But those are Paul the Apostle’s words – not mine. I’ll admit I can find myself less than contented. Today my sweetheart…

By Donna Wuerch Noble October 15, 2023 Off

A Picture-Perfect New Year

Was your Christmas picture-perfect? Like the picture-perfect greeting cards of families in matching pajamas? Maybe yours WASN’T picture-perfect which meant the doors of comparison swung wide open and envy and disagreements flooded in. It is easy for our attitudes to turn sour because picture-perfect isn’t what our lives look like. What is it about the…

By Donna Wuerch Noble December 31, 2022 Off

Living Our Best Lives

My routines are usually without spot or wrinkle. But this morning, it starts with a dropped box of Cheerios scattered all over the floor. I go to my car and a tire is at only 25 inflation pressure. I’m on the phone with a friend and my big Yeti mug turns over and is going…

By Donna Wuerch Noble September 15, 2022 Off