Don't raise good kids

Don't raise good kids, by Jon Bloom
This will surprise most people.
I don't have any kids, but I was this good kid. The worst part is when God's grace isn't something one receives freely, but something one doesn't know is there because frankly, why do you need it when you're "pretty good"? Or so it seems. Until reality hits. That was only some years back, a step-by-step process. And that's why lately I've been all about grace: seeing it's there, accepting it, taking it, enjoying it, praising God for it, and by God's grace, giving it as well. And I continue to need to notice it's there, for me.

Actually, a tree ablaze

I want to dedicate this post, authored by Ann Voskamp and posted on her blog this early November day, to my best friends because I know we've all battled and fight daily to let go of the measuring sticks.

“The world isn’t a forest of measuring sticks. The world is a forest of burning bushes. Everything isn’t a marker to make you feel behind or ahead; everything is a flame to make you see GOD is here. That God is working through this person’s life, that God is redeeming that person’s life, that God is igniting this work, that God is present here in this mess, that God is using even this.”
“Walk through life with a measuring stick – and your eyes get so small you never see God.”
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From, How the Hidden Dangers of Comparison are Killing Us 

… {and Our Daughters} : The Measuring Stick Principle