Growing Pains

Once again, I apologize, worst blogger ever. Makes me grateful that my following is so small, I don't have to worry about the masses wondering where my next blog post is.

Anyways, tonight I wanted to post something that I wrote in my personal journal. It's something that was placed on my heart because of recent circumstances that have since been resolved, but I still believe what I wrote in response.

Growing up is hard. I don't know why I didn't consciously realize this before. It's a struggle to let go of habits that you honed and perfected as a child. Children are inherently greedy, selfish, desperate for attention, etc. As adults, however, I feel that it is really important to focus more of our energy on those around us, and less on ourselves. It's so easy to look at ourselves and moan that life is so difficult: this happened, that didn't happen, I wanted this, I got that...whatever the case is. But how many others are worse off than us? This is my challenge to myself (and to you if you choose to accept it) to focus on the needs, and even wants, of others and not focus so much on my life. I fully trust that God is in control and that he has a plan and provision for my life that is far better than anything i could have planned!

Becoming an adult is difficult, different people expect different things of you. We need to stop behaving like children, doing stupid things for attention, causing fights over things that don't matter, putting down others to make ourselves feel better. How much better our time could be spent enriching someone's life than shredding one.