{"id":421,"date":"2013-02-19T23:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=421"},"modified":"2020-06-16T05:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:08:23","slug":"constant-competition-is-exhausting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Constant competition is exhausting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to get my hair cut today.  I went to a new place and they had an opening for me.<\/p>\n

The available stylist was very friendly and asked if I had children so we talked a bit about my girls.  Then she told me that she had a new granddaughter, and pulled out her phone to show me a photo. Just as she was holding it up for me to look at she said, “I’m sure my baby is prettier than all of yours.”<\/p>\n

I just laughed inside, smiled, took a look at the photo and truthfully told her that her granddaughter was indeed beautiful!  The remainder of the appointment was nice and she did a great job trimming my hair and adding some shape back into it.<\/p>\n

I didn’t really think about her comment again until later, but when I did it truly exhausted me.  I was momentarily stunned all over again to realize that this lady I had never met was wanting to compete with me over something that is completely impossible to compete at.<\/p>\n

Then in the next instant I was overwhelmed with memories of myself attempting to compete over ridiculous things throughout my life. How exhausting?  How pointless? How annoying for other people… sorry about that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Jesus… thank you for opening my eyes today even if only for a moment.  Thank you for the reminder that I want to live Our Best Life and in Our Best Life there is no need to compare or compete because we are all seen with Your eyes of love<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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