Excellent Post Over at Girltalk: "When Someone Else Gets What We Want"

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, penned the writer of Proverbs 13:12. Something we rarely talk about these days is envy, yet it's something I've seen not only in myself but in many of my friends, male and female.

Nicole Whitacre has an excellent post on this over at the Girltalk blog. Nicole wrote:

One sure indicator as to whether or not a good desire has morphed into an idol is how we respond when someone else gets the very thing that we want but don’t have. When a close friend—who was perfectly happy to be single—up and gets married, and we are, literally, left behind. Or when, as is the case for a friend of mine, we know five other girls who are pregnant and we are not.

And what about the woman who gets married younger than us, whose job is more glamorous than ours, whose house is bigger than ours, whose marriage is better than ours, whose life is easier than ours, whose children are more well-behaved than ours, whose popularity is brighter than ours, whose intelligence is greater than ours? Need I go on?

Head on over and check out the entire post. Then check out what Tomorrow Mom had to say about a battle plan for fighting envy.

Guard your hearts!