Boxed In.

Boxed In. ‘Your grandpa was a plumber. Your daddy was a plumber. By golly, son, you will be a plumber.’ ‘Why can’t you be more like your sister? She is such a great math student.’ Does it seem like others are holding you up to the light to compare you to everyone else? Have you ever felt like a clump of hard clay and the rest of the world is holding the hammer and chisel? Who drew a square around your life and said, ‘Here you go, live in it’? If someone else hasn’t, we often do it to ourselves. You are unique. You are endowed to leave a fingerprint on this world. Sure, comparison can be healthy when it motivates us to become more of who God has made us to be. Comparison is not to create copies. You are the only you that will ever walk on the face of this planet. Be you. Be the best you that only you can be. God’s design for your life is not a box; it’s an ocean - an ocean teaming with possibilities. Step outside of the box.