October 24, 2015

COMPARISONS

Come on now, we all compare!

To be human is to compare.

Be honest now - mom was

easier than dad or vice versa….

We see a bowl of apples or a

dish of chocolate chip cookies.

Don’t we all pause before we

pick the one that looks the best.

It would be a boring beauty contest

or a baseball season if nobody won

or there wasn’t a most valuable player.

It rained all week while on vacation.
Hey, you’re allowed to complain!

Comparisons challenge - okay they

also cut - especially when parents

or kids use them to get the other

to do what they want the other to do.

So too coaches and teachers and other kids.

Hey, Jesus used them all the time.

Repeat after me: “We all do.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2015