Y’all, I hate wearing dirty glasses. That visible type of dirty that you didn’t even realize existed prior to attempting to clean your glasses. Which after you clean your glasses, you’re left looking at a world so crisp and clear you’re totally surprised at the life of dirty glasses you were leading just moments prior.

Then all of a sudden, you’re going about your task and you’ve forgotten about the change from dirty to clean. You naturally acclimate to the environment with which your eyes were given. Your eyes still functioned with the dirty, you just didn’t even realize the dirty was dirty until it was made clean. It’s amazing how the body can adjust to the specific set of stimuli we push on to it at any given moment.

I realized that I can tend to do the same thing with my life. When I’m in the wrong sort of environment, not in a community, not seeking out Jesus daily.

It is not until I have a moment with God that I realize that I have been missing out.

I can get so caught up in other stuff, that my spiritual health falls to the wayside. I’ve been realizing more and more, though, that if my spiritual health isn’t a top priority, my whole life gets turned upsidedown and I begin to drown.

I've realized that cleaning off is not just a once a week thing, it’s a multiple times-a-day thing. I want to be focused on Jesus in all the little moments throughout my day.

Now I’m not saying I’ll be walking around cleaning my physical glasses all the time throughout the day, but I want to be cleaning the spiritual glasses of my life and taking stock of it better. The parts of me that can tend to get dirty quickly and in the process, can cause me to lose sight of myself.

Places that, If I don’t make an effort to clean, can turn to incredibly dark places where I don’t want to be. Places filled with anxiety, fear, and depression.

Those feelings tend to be exacerbated when I start looking too much at other people’s glasses lives. When I start comparing what others are doing and where they are to where I’m at. That comparison is rarely coming from a good place.

When I see good things come to friends, I’m excited and love to celebrate them, however, it’s all too easy to mindlessly scroll through Instagram and subconsciously compare your life to other people’s lives.

You don't need to be comparing your life to anyone else's, except for who you were yesterday.

And when we're comparing our lives to other people's lives, we're not staying true to the things which are important to us. So, in reality, we can dirty our sight with the fluff of things that aren't our own. I've been struggling with this so much lately, that I've started to lose sight of the things I want in the face of trying to make everyone else happy with me.

Wear your own pair of glasses.

Don't limit yourself by trying to wear other people's lives.

Your life is unique and special. You are full of purpose. Everything about you has a reason. Don’t worry about what glasses other people are wearing that you aren’t. Trust that God gave you your specific story for a reason and run with that.