I spent Thursday morning doing school work, thankfully.  I listened to Journey this morning and listened to an interview with Steve Perry.   I thought about some significant things related to desire and self-centered thinking this morning but I can't remember what they are this Friday morning as I write this.

I thought back to someone I spoke to recently who is struggling with comparing themselves to the success of others.  I thought about how I tried to encourage them but just did a superficial job by validating their feelings.  I remembered how I worked through this. I was thinking down a wrong path of thinking I worked a better spiritual program than they did but still failed.  Then I thought I would set my sights on a personal victory of working a better program than them.  I realized my wrong motives and stopped them but recognized that I had stumbled onto the solution to my problem.  I needed to focus on how well of a job I did of working my program and nothing else.  More specifically, in meetings I needed to focus on how well I carried the message.

The rest of this day I spent attending to the kids.

Thanks be to God.