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You Have Your Life Together!

"You have your life together!" Ha! Hahaha... ha... yeah.... That was my first response, but then I though about it a bit. I just graduated from a prestigious college. I graduated with departmental honors. I'm getting married in the fall to an amazing man. I have a strong community both in Iowa and Michigan. I have a job. My life is pretty put together. God has blessed me with so much. And yet I can still find myself caught up in the logistics and details. Caught up in the to-do lists that haven't been done, in the invitations that should have been sent weeks ago, in the phone calls that haven't been made, or the meetings that haven't been scheduled. I feel discouraged at one phone call not returned or one slightly critical comment from my parents. I feel like my life is an unknown mess and I'm failing everything. But I'm not. My life is pretty put together. Because my value is not in what I do. It is in Christ. And my worth is not in what I accomp