Called to This Season | SAHM, Lonely, Overstimulated, Reassurance, Biblical Encouragement
Aug 12, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
- *Why can't I just enjoy my own life without measuring it against someone else's?* - *Why does someone else's good news make me feel worse about my own life?* - *Will I ever get my joy back, or has…
So one of the first things that the Lord revealed to me in this was comparing myself that way.
The comparison was stealing my presence.
Every moment that you spend comparing your life to someone else's is a moment you are not actually enjoying your own life.
Comparison pulls you out of the present and it drops you into this fictional competition with someone who literally doesn't even know they're competing with you.
While you're sitting there measuring up your kitchen and its decor or its cleanliness or how the other woman's kids act and talk to her, you're completely ignoring the kitchen you're in and the gratitude of the kitchen that you have and the children that are right in front of you because you're so busy looking at other people's children.
You're replaying the highlight reel in your mind and the moment that you should have been experiencing in real time, it's just passing you by.
Comparison does not just steal joy, it steals presence.
Presence is the ability to be fully here, fully available, fully engaged in your own life.
And as your children are growing and developing and your family is changing in different seasons and cycles, why would you want to miss that opportunity to be present with your family? When you're noticing that this comparison is starting to bubble up or even starting to stir a small little bit of thought in your mind, I'm really going to encourage you to say something out loud, something like this.
I'm here.
This is my life and this moment is mine.
You need to have the intention of bringing yourself back to the present of where you are, the present time with your children, the present time in your home, the events you get to have with your kids, the places you get to go with your family.
And as we are talking about the places you get to go with your family and the moments with your kids, as you are sitting there comparing, you are getting gratitude taken from you.
Comparison and gratitude cannot fully occupy in the same space.
When comparison moves in, gratitude runs out.
Comparison reframes everything you have.
And it puts it through the lens of what someone else has instead.
Your home stops being good enough because her home looks better, smells nicer, is cleaner.
Your season stops feeling meaningful because it looks easier and the same season looks easier on her side.
Your ordinary Tuesday stops being beautiful because her Tuesday looks extraordinary.
All these things you used to feel genuinely grateful for and now you're kind of like these are just consolation prizes.
So I'm going to ask you to take some time and write three things about your life that are genuinely good.
We're not going through the comparison game.
We're not going to say genuinely good compared to or could be better.
We're focusing on legitimately what is really good in your life.
So one of the first things that the Lord revealed to me in this was comparing myself that way.
The comparison was stealing my presence.
Every moment that you spend comparing your life to someone else's is a moment you are not actually enjoying your own life.
Comparison pulls you out of the present and it drops you into this fictional competition with someone who literally doesn't even know they're competing with you.
While you're sitting there measuring up your kitchen and its decor or its cleanliness or how the other woman's kids act and talk to her, you're completely ignoring the kitchen you're in and the gratitude of the kitchen that you have and the children that are right in front of you because you're so busy looking at other people's children.
You're replaying the highlight reel in your mind and the moment that you should have been experiencing in real time, it's just passing you by.
Comparison does not just steal joy, it steals presence.
Presence is the ability to be fully here, fully available, fully engaged in your own life.
And as your children are growing and developing and your family is changing in different seasons and cycles, why would you want to miss that opportunity to be present with your family? When you're noticing that this comparison is starting to bubble up or even starting to stir a small little bit of thought in your mind, I'm really going to encourage you to say something out loud, something like this.
I'm here.
This is my life and this moment is mine.
You need to have the intention of bringing yourself back to the present of where you are, the present time with your children, the present time in your home, the events you get to have with your kids, the places you get to go with your family.
And as we are talking about the places you get to go with your family and the moments with your kids, as you are sitting there comparing, you are getting gratitude taken from you.
Comparison and gratitude cannot fully occupy in the same space.
When comparison moves in, gratitude runs out.
Comparison reframes everything you have.
And it puts it through the lens of what someone else has instead.
Your home stops being good enough because her home looks better, smells nicer, is cleaner.
Your season stops feeling meaningful because it looks easier and the same season looks easier on her side.
Your ordinary Tuesday stops being beautiful because her Tuesday looks extraordinary.
All these things you used to feel genuinely grateful for and now you're kind of like these are just consolation prizes.
So I'm going to ask you to take some time and write three things about your life that are genuinely good.
We're not going through the comparison game.
We're not going to say genuinely good compared to or could be better.
We're focusing on legitimately what is really good in your life.
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