Monday Prayer: Struggling with Comparison

Lord, you are the one who created me uniquely, wonderfully, with intention and purpose. You don't make mistakes or duplicates. In your eyes, I'm not too much or too little - I'm exactly who you designed me to be.

I spent today measuring my life against others' highlight reels, feeling inadequate and behind. Social media made me forget my blessings while I catalogued everyone else's. I've been competing in races I was never meant to run, coveting gifts you gave to others while neglecting the ones you gave to me. Thank you for the unique story you're writing through my life, for talents that are mine alone to steward, for a path that doesn't need to look like anyone else's to be beautiful.

Free me from the exhausting game of comparison. Help me celebrate others' victories without diminishing my own worth. Teach me to run my own race with endurance, focused on you rather than the runners beside me. Tonight, I choose gratitude for the life I have instead of longing for the lives I see. You've written my story with love - help me trust the plot.