July 14: EVERYONE'S LEAP LOOKS DIFFERENT. COMPARISON IS A PUNK.

Affirmation: Asking for help is a gift to myself and others.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”‭‭ Matthew‬ ‭7:7-8‬ ‭NIV‬‬~~~~~~~Go Kenya Update:We spent Tuesday afternoon through this afternoon on safari in the Maasai Mara. It is incredibly beautiful…both the people and the animals and the land.
We are leaving Kenya tomorrow, Saturday very late for the next leg of our journey. Lillian and I return to Tampa Sunday night and the other three are headed to Paris.
Thank you for your prayers.
Please pray that Springs of Hope Kenya can raise the $20,000 for yearly fees for the 15 or so students who are ready to start college or trade school in September.

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Reading for Today
Walk in Grace. Live in Love. by Bob Goff

                       July 14


EVERYONE'S LEAP LOOKS DIFFERENT. COMPARISON IS A PUNK.

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people. I would not be a servant of Christ. 
GALATIANS 1:10 

When I was in college, my buddies and I didn't know how to have fun unless a little danger was involved. We liked driving to the ocean to explore new spots for cliff diving. We liked having conversations on roofs because there was a chance one of us could fall. Any fun outing became more exciting the moment our lives felt at risk in the process. 


Inevitably, someone in our group would be scared of heights. The guy usually tried to play it cool, but you'd see him slide down to a lower ledge to jump or find a safe way to shimmy down. My friends often gave him a hard time about it, but I always had a soft spot for the guy who couldn't quite handle the high places. We all bring different fears with us on our adventures, and his just happened to look different from mine. 


Those excursions taught me chat even if everyone's leap looks different, we are all in it together. In the end, it doesn't matter whether someone jumps from a high place or a low; what matters is that we make the leap. 


We all face different challenges, and chose challenges require different kinds of faith. Sometimes faith looks like taking aid to civilians in war zones, and sometimes faith looks like reading bedtime stories to toddlers as they drift off to sleep. God never told us to compare our faith with another's. Comparison is a punk. God told us to be faithful to the path laid out before us and take our next step, not someone else's. 


Who have you been comparing yourself to lately? What are you going to do to stop? 

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