Ideal isn’t always the best deal.

We all carry it. Sometimes as a heavy burden on our back or sometimes clinched between our fingers. It’s at the forefront of our thought’s & it grows in our dreams. It’s reflected in our conversations and revealed in our spending. “It” is our picture-perfect idealized version of how life should look versus the often broken version of life we are currently experiencing.

But that isn't anything new, the world is broken and as our hearts long for completion we need the reminder that completion isn't found in our ideal but in God's real. And on top of that the more we cling to our own ideals the more we risk missing out on something “better” God has for us. You can’t grab onto what God has for you, if your hands are full of what you have for you…