Pull Up A Chair
One of the greatest obstacles we face in life isn't a lack of opportunity, it's the belief that we don't belong. We look around and see people who seem more talented, more experienced, more successful, or more qualified than we are, and we quietly convince ourselves that every meaningful opportunity has already been claimed. We begin believing there isn't room for one more voice, one more dream, one more calling, or one more person like us. Without realizing it, we allow comparison to become the reason we never take the first step. I've learned that comparison has a remarkable way of shrinking our confidence. It causes us to measure our beginning against someone else's years of experience. We compare our struggles to another person's victories, our insecurities to their confidence, and our ordinary lives to the polished version of someone else's story. Before long, we stop asking what God has called us to do because we're too busy wondering why someo...
