I got married at the ripe age of twenty-six years old. I am quite confident that I didn’t get married a day too soon or a day too late. It was the right timefor me. “For me” is a phrase we should embrace a little more, and I don’t mean that in a self-consumed, narcissistic sort of way. I mean it in a “I know myself and I’m not ready” or “I’m good right now; it can wait” sort of way. Make sense? We live in an age of constant comparison. At our fingertips, we see the world through a screen and fantasize about all the things we’re missing out on in the current moment. We see everyone’s highlights and die a little inside because someone is further along in life or “happier” than we are, from what we can see. I believe social media is this generation’s greatest curse and greatest blessing wrapped in one. Carey Nieuwhof once said, “Social media makes for a great servant but a terrible master.”3 Ain’t that the truth! It takes us further than we could dream but can cut us deeper than we wish.

While the majority of us know this to be true, it’s still hard to manage the tensions we face in the world around us. Even as a pastor, I struggle with comparison and give way to unnecessary anxieties. I find myself asking the questions “How does this pastor have so many people a