Author: Shauna Wallace

The “New Year, New You!” dreams always ended in disappointment for me. It was more like “New Year, same old me.” Here’s what I do about it.

Shared experiences over time create meaningful bonds that are difficult to replicate when relationships are new or young. I call them “friendships with history,” or, to borrow a Hebrew term, friends we yāda’ or “know experientially.” Yāda’ describes the journey from head knowledge to heart knowledge, where information about God becomes intimate knowledge of God (see Psalm 46:20).

Comparison ensnares us in the condemning trap of “not enough.” Here are 3 checks to kick comparison to the curb.