Just in the same way that nobody can live Jesus' life except Jesus... nobody can be you except you. You are special. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. God made you just the way you are. And it wasn't an accident. You were created on purpose, for purpose, and by purpose. There are things you can do that no one else can do. There are people you can reach that no one else can reach. So when you try to be someone you're not, not only are you going to end up supremely frustrated, but you're robbing yourself--and everybody else--of who you are. "Religion" may be about fitting into a box. Conforming to whatever your culture thinks "holiness" is. Or trying (and failing) to follow the Law of Moses. But that's not what your heavenly Father wants for you. If He wanted you to be someone else He would have made you someone else. This idea that we're not good enough, but if we work hard enough we can someday get good enough, is a fantasy. It's a lie. It's THE lie that the serpent hissed into Eve's ear. "Get enough knowledge about good and evil and you can stop doing evil, do good, and be accepted. Be like God." Again. That's the LIE. Because you were created in the image of God. That's the key. Not trying to live Jesus' life, but letting Jesus live His own everlasting, eternal, abundant, Resurrection Life in you, and through you, and as you. It's not about following in Jesus' foot steps. It's about letting Him make His own foot steps with your feet. It's not about being someone you're not. It's about embracing who you are. Who you REALLY are. Which is Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in YOUR flesh. Love in YOUR body. Filled to overflowing with that love so that it comes out naturally. Because when Jesus walks with your feet... He walks by faith. He walks in love. I know we all have that thing inside of us that makes our heart leap in our chests. Don't deny that thing. Do that thing! BE that thing! But don't do it selfishly. Do it selflessly. Colossians 3:23 says, "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men." I think that's my key verse for the next Rant series. But I guess we can touch on it here. You know it's hard for me to not get ahead of myself. If you're doing something unto men, it's usually because you want something FROM them. "I'll scratch your back IF you'll scratch mine." It's not about giving, it's about getting. This is completely backwards though. Love IS giving. So it can't be about getting. And when you embrace yourself--when you know who you are, who your Daddy is, and what you've got... the ultimate truth of the universe that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands--that's when you understand that you have something to give. Love is giving. Giving everything you have, and everything you are. That's what love is all about. Jesus said the greatest love a man can have is to lay down his life for his friends. Give what you've got. Receive it and release it. And in that way, experience it! Share the gift you've been given. Share the LOVE you've been given. God IS love. That's not just what He does. That's who He is. And as He is, so are we in this world. It's not just what WE do, it's who we are. So just BE who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. Be yourself!

Variety is the spice of life. The same thing over and over is the definition of a rut--which, I say every time, is just a grave with the ends kicked out. If all you can think of is trying to earn your bread by the sweat of your brow... if you think that's what it's all about... then you might have missed the part where Jesus said, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). There's something MORE that's available than what the world has to offer. And, in a word, its called the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of Love. Because what makes abundant life abundant? Love does! When I say, "Be yourself" what I mean is do what YOU do. And do it out of love. I've mentioned this before but my sister has a sign in her room that says, "Do small things with great love." And what I'm trying to teach my son is, "Do everything you do with great love. Do it because it's in your heart to do it." I really think that's where we get messed up a lot of the time; we do things for all the wrong reasons. We do them because we think we're "supposed to." Or we think if we do them we'll get what we want. Guys... love is never about getting. Love IS giving. And to truly love you have to give everything you have and everything you are. Because people need what you have. And people need who you are. So if you're not being yourself, you're stealing, and killing, and destroying. Maybe not--HOPEFULLY not--in a literal sense. But if you're not being yourself you're robbing people of experiencing the miracle that you are. We need each other. There are things I can do that you can't. And there are things you can do that I can't. But together... together we can do anything. Song of Solomon 5:16 describes the Beloved (Jesus) as altogher lovely. And I believe the reverse of that is also true. He is altogether lovely... and WE are lovely all together. We are all different parts of the same body. But we are all necessary. That's why the Apostle Paul went to great lengths to write about how we can't all be the same body part. Every part has a function. A calling. We are all here to do something special. And only you can do that thing the way you can do it. So if you don't... if you try to conform to the world instead of BEING transformed (into what you've already been transformed into) by the renewing of you mind... that's when "life" gets stale, and boring, and unbareable. That's when people lose the joy of living. Because what the world has to offer pales in comparision to what is available to us in the Kingdom. "Life" doesn't cut it. But abundant life... a life full of love... of being loved by God and loving each other with that same love... that's a life worth living. Forever. (Everlasting, eternal, right?) An easy way to say it is: Why are you trying to fit in when you were created to stand out? Why are you trying to be someone you're not when you were fearfully and wonderfully made? Why are you stuck in a rut when you have been set free? Free FROM sin and death, and free TO live and love!

There's a fundamental flaw with the religious idea of "do in order to be." If you have to do something in order to be accepted, or loved... that means you aren't good enough to begin with. And if you aren't good enough to begin with, how in the world are you supposed to get better? I know you can improve yourself in some ways. Physical exercise, eating right, things of that nature. But no matter how big and strong you are, theology is not about self-improvement. It's about self-awareness. 1 Timothy 4:8 says it like this, "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." Now add to that 2 Peter 1:3, "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue." You can't be a "better" Christian. That's not how it works. Christian means "Christ-like" right? So instead of this idea of, "I was a little be like Christ today, but I really need to work on it so I can be a better Christian," why don't we just accept the truth in 1 John 4:17, "...as he is, so are we in this world." And that takes the fundamental religious flaw completely out of the equation. We ARE good enough to begin with. We were made in the image of God. As He is, so are we in this world. We can't "get" godliness because we have already been GIVEN all things that pertain to life and godliness. The problem isn't who you are. The problem is who you THINK you are. You are complete in Him. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. How could you get any more perfect than having the Perfect One (Jesus... God in the flesh, love in a body) live inside you? But then you have to change your perception of what "perfection" is. If you think of it as never messing up... well... good luck with that. People make mistakes. The key is LEARNING from your mistakes. Learning and growing. Coming into the knowledge--heart knowledge, not just head knowledge--of who you really are. Who you are in Christ. Who Christ is in you. Perfection means maturity. And that's what the first part of 1 John 4:17 talks about: "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment..." A perfect, mature, complete love. Not something that is lacking. Not something we need. And not someONE we need to BE. It's who we ARE. Who we have always been. We just didn't know it. We thought we were no good sinners. So we tried to change by keeping the Law. But real, lasting change doesn't come from something external. It can't. It comes from something internal. The heart. It comes from the flesh of human effort being cut away by the circumcision made without hands and God revealing HIS heart--beating with love--in our chests. See, first we were MADE in God's image. But it was dark and we couldn't see who He was. We didn't know who we were. Then on the cross the light shined and we were CONFORMED to the image of His Son. We could see clearly. See HIM clearly. See OURSELVES clearly. See that we ARE good enough to be loved. And when we know that we are loved... we can love. That's why we're here. That's who we are!

I've found, through much trial and error, that I can't be anybody but me. Everytime I try to go against my nature, I end up completely frustrated. And I usually make things worse, even when I'm trying to make them better. It's like this: Have you ever heard the saying, "Stay in your lane"? That's kind of what I'm talking about. There are things you are good at, and there are things you are not good at. Same with me. Same with everybody. So instead of trying to do things you weren't created to do... "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called" (Ephesians 4:1). The NLT reads, "...lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God." In other words: Be yourself. The only way you can live a life worthy of your calling is by living YOUR life. Don't try to be someone you're not. It's impossible. And don't try to live Jesus' life, either. Nobody can live Jesus' life except Jesus. Just understand that He IS your life... that HE is living His own life in you, and through you, and as you... and do everything you do from the heart. I really believe that's the key to living. Because to live is to love, and to love is to live. So if you aren't following your heart... if you're looking for love in all the wrong places... then you're robbing yourself of the gift you've been given. AND you're robbing others of experiencing that gift. Because to live is to love and to love is to live... and love is giving. I've heard it said you can give without loving but you cannot love without giving. And REAL love, that agape love that God is, is giving yourself. Everything you have and everything you are. Not denying yourself, but embracing yourself. Watch this now--when you embrace yourself, you embrace others. Because when you accept yourself for who and what you are... when you fill yourself to overflowing with what you've already been filled with... it comes out naturally. I'm telling you, this life isn't supposed to be an uphill battle. It's supposed to be a flow. An outpouring of the indwelling Spirit. Quick aside, I'm not saying everything in life comes easy. Of course it doesn't. I'm speaking Spiritually. And Spiritually speaking, works don't work. But when you do what you do from a posture of rest... when you drink of the living water that is Jesus... that's when it flows out of your belly--your heart, your innermost being--like a river of living water. That's my point. It's not about trying really hard to be someone your not, or get something you haven't got. It's about knowing and believing that you are exactly who you're supposed to be. And then just being yourself. You know that thing in your heart that either fires you up or makes you feel completely at peace? Sometimes at the same time? That's YOU. Do that thing. Do it as big, and as loud, and as proud as you can. (Unless that thing is murdering people, or committing some other crime. But those things don't come from the heart. So obviously that's not what I'm talking about.) What's in you WILL come out. As long as you know and believe it's in there. The love of God WILL fill you to overflowing as you receive it, and release it. And that's who you really are; God's love letter to the world. He is love and He expresses Himself TO you, and IN you, and THROUGH you!

If I could only tell people on thing about "theology" I would tell them the ultimate truth of the universe: "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand" (John 3:35). But that truth comes to manifestation only when you understand that YOU are the Son in question. When you understand your true identity; the inner man, the hidden man of the heart... Jesus. So if I could only tell people TWO things about "theology" the other thing would be this: Be yourself. To me, that's about as important as it gets. Because if you run around like a chicken with your heard cut off trying to be someone you're not--trying to fit into a religious box--then you will rob yourself of the gift you've been given. You will rob yourself of the LIFE you've been given. I say this all the time: No one can live Jesus' life except Jesus. Well... when something is true the reverse is often true as well. Nobody can life YOUR life except YOU. Look at Psalm 139:14, "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." You are not an accident. And the YOU that you are is not an accident. God created you on purpose, for purpose, and by purpose. He didn't just throw a bunch of random ingredients together and hope for the best. You are not an accident. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. And that IS an amazing reason to praise Him, but that's not my focus right this second. My focus right this second is on getting you to see yourself as you truly are. You're a miracle. Believe it or not. And you are necessary. You can reach people in ways that nobody else can. You can reach PEOPLE that nobody else can. But not if you're denying yourself in order to try to be someone you're not. Not if you're hiding your light under a bushel, so to speak. I don't know why but it seems like we're so afraid of the things that make us unique. We are so interested in fitting in, when we were made to stand out. Romans 12:2 says it like this, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Be NOT conformed. Which means we have already been brought OUT of this world. It doesn't say, "GET transformed." It says, "BE transformed." Into what you've already been transformed into. It's the same warning given to the people of Israel to not go back to Egypt. And in fact, God parted the Red Sea in front of them, and then closed it up behind them. It took a miracle to get out of bondage. And the way back was closed. Of course, I'm not saying people DON'T go back. If they didn't, there would be no need for a warning not to. I'm simply saying... upward and Godward. When you BE transformed by the renewing of your mind, you're still you. You just do what you do to prove the good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. You do what you do as unto Him. My example is myself, and my writing. I used to write what my grandma referred to as, "trash." Now I write Jesus Rants, and Jesus books. See? I'm still me... I'm just setting my sights a little higher. I'm just being who I REALLY am. Who I am in Christ. Who Christ is in me. That's the only way to truly live. To live is to love. To live is to give. Give yourself. BE yourself!

Sometimes you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. That's why the grass always looks greener on the other side. Familiarity breeds comtempt. You get stuck in a rut--which is just a grave with the ends kicked out--and you start to feel like where you're at is where you're going to be forever. That snapshot mentality that I talk about so often. But I think it's important to understand that sometimes you are exactly where you need to be. At least for now. Because it came to pass, not to stay. Tough times don't last, tough people do. And when you either A. Nail your ear to the door or B. Come to the end of yourself... you find that home is where the heart is. Jesus is the door. So when you nail your ear to Jesus, or lay your head on his breast, you can hear the heartbeat of God. You can hear the word "love" coming out with each beat. And when you begin to fill yourself with that love... it comes out. Naturally. Because you've already been filled to overflowing with it. You're filling yourself with what you've been filled with. You're apprehending what you've been apprehended of. You're fighting the good fight of faith by laying hold of eternal life. Laying hold of the gift you've already been given. Receiving it and releasing it. Knowing it and believing it. Appreciating what you've got BEFORE it's gone. Counting your blessings, as they say. Knowing where you're REALLY at--the Promised Land, the Kingdom--which stops you from trying to go somewhere else. Remember: Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you HAVE to. And it doesn't mean you SHOULD. Follow your heart. Trust your gut. Know where your heart is. Because that's where your home is. "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..." (Proverbs 23:7). The heart is our guide. The heart is our true identity. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. God in the flesh. Love in a body. Jesus. So if home is where your heart is... and you KNOW where your heart is... then wherever you go, that's your home. Being a thermostat, instead of a thermometer. SETTING the temperature, instead of just reading it. Shining your light wherever you go, because it's not hidden under a basket. The hidden man of the heart no longer hidden. The mystery--Christ in you the hope of glory--revealed. The Word MADE flesh. Charity. Love in action. If you're always looking for something you WILL miss out on what you've got. But if you know what you've got then you can share it. Experience it. Give it away. And when others pick up what you're laying down... then THEY come home to. Home, to the loving arms of their heavenly Father. Home, to the place where they belong. You can help people experience that. But not until YOU experience it. Not until YOU are home. They say charity starts at home, right? You can't help others until you help yourself first. On an airplane you put YOUR oxygen mask on first, and then help others. Fill YOURSELF to overflowing. Strengthen YOURSELF in the Lord. And then you'll have something to give. Something to share. You'll know what you've got... and then you'll be able to enjoy it, and share it.

There's no place like home. And that's because home is where your heart is. Home is where your family is. I often find myself thinking of the cross, and my biggest takeaway is always the truth that Jesus' arms were spread wide. He wasn't on the cross condemning people. He was on the cross forgiving people. "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do..." (Luke 23:34). He wasn't sending us away--to "hell" or anywhere else--He was bringing us close. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32). Let me say it another way: "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation" (2 Corinthians 5:19). My point is... His arms were spread wide in a loving embrace. He drew us all into Himself, and He planted Himself in us all. He got rid of any separation between God and man. And He did it by God taking up abode IN man. We live in Him because He lives in us. Home is not a building. Just as the church is not a building. WE are the church. Home is where your heart is. And YOUR heart is really GOD'S heart beating with love in YOUR chest. Before the cross, before the circumcision made without hands cut away the flesh of human effort, we did the best we could with what we had in order to get what we wanted. But the problem was... just when we thought we could reach the carrot, the stick moved. There was always "one thing we lacked." And that thing was the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth. The ultimate truth of the universe that goes like this, "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand" (John 3:35). I'll say it one more time today. Home is where your heart is. As long as you're looking for love in all the wrong places... trying to earn something that can't be earned... you'll never feel settled. You'll never feel accepted. Family is forever. They HAVE to accept you. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, like the prodigal son, it's never too late to go home. And like the Love Slave, when you find that place where you belong, stand firm. Just because you CAN leave doesn't mean you SHOULD. And it doesn't mean you HAVE TO. Freedom works two ways: You can be free FROM things, and you can be free TO things. Free FROM the bondage of sin and death. Free TO live a life of love. One of my favorite songs (about heartbreak) has a line that says, "If it's true home is where the heart is, I guess now I'm homeless." And I think that's how a lot of people feel. Either running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to find something, or wandering around despondently after having given up on what we want most--love and acceptance. We don't seem to understand that love is found at the source. Love is found within. We love, because He FIRST loved us. You can't get it from anywhere else. And I'm not saying it doesn't come in all shapes and sizes, sometimes from the most unexpected people. It does. I'm simply saying, you can't earn a free gift. All you can do is receive it and release it. Know it and believe it. Give it away. Share it. And in that way, experience it. Jesus embraced us. We ought to embrace each other. Instead of trying to FIND a home... BE a home!

I said there were two pictures of someone realizing that the grass ISN'T greener on the other side. We looked at the Love Slave. The man who COULD leave his master's house, but chose NOT to. He nailed his ear to the door and heard the heartbeat of God. Now we look at a parable Jesus told. Commonly known as the Prodigal Son. The son DID leave his father's house, because he thought the grass was greener. He wanted what the world had to offer. Took his inheritance early--basically telling his father, "I wish you were dead, because you're worth more to me dead than alive"--and squandered it. Then, when he hit rock bottom, he had this revelation: "When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, 'At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!" (Luke 15:17 NLT). The King James version says, "When he came to himself." When he came to the END of himself. When he did what he could with what he had--which wasn't much at all--he remembered how good it was in his father's house. Even his father's servants had it better than the son himself. So he hatched a plan to go join the workforce. To leave as a son, and return as a servant. He was having an identity crisis because he felt like he was at the end of his rope. And then look at what happened when he came back home: "So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him" (Luke 15:20 NLT). Daddy ran out to meet him! He didn't hold a grudge. And he didn't receive him as a servant. Daddy said, "'for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.' So the party began" (Luke 15:24 NLT). See... it's not about earning anything. It's about life and death. Jesus didn't come to give us a way to earn what we desired. He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. And when a son (Son) returns from the dead... it's cause for a celebration. The party began! A homecoming party! That which was lost had been found. And the only one with a grudging attitude was the older brother, who thought of himself as the "good son" but was all fired up because Daddy never threw HIM a party. What he didn't realize was, "His father said to him, 'Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours'" (Luke 15:31 NLT). When we live in Daddy's house... what's His... is ours. The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. We don't have to beg for it, or try to earn it, or anything like that. It's all ours. The inheritance, passed down from Father to Son. Everything He has and everything He is. Home is where the heart is, right? And it's Father God's heart beating with love in our chests. That's why the grass ISN'T greener on the other side. That's why we can choose not to leave Daddy's house... or we can come back and He will accept us with open arms. Because love doesn't give up on people. Love never fails because it (HE) endures. In my family we kind of have a motto: Family is forever. We're stuck with each other. And that's not a bad thing, that's a good thing. That's the best thing. Because no matter what... we have somewhere to go. No matter how bad it gets... family is waiting for us at home!

Home is where your heart is. And when you're home, you know there's nowhere else you'd rather be. Just like the Love Slave in Deuteronomy chapter 15. He was given his freedom, but he knew just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you HAVE to. And then he had his ear nailed to the door. And this is what I want to Rant about today. Because it's pretty awesome. So first lets look at John 10:7, "Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep." Got it? Jesus is the door. (I know, I know, it's all Jesus. It's all love. But stick with me.) Now connect that to John 13:24-25, "Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?" Now, listen, I understand that John--the disciple that Jesus loved, the one asking the question--was literally asking about who the traitor would be. But, as usual, the Scripture is like an onion. There are layers. So let's peel it back a little bit and we'll see that John--the disciple who followed Jesus all the way to the cross and then wrote the book of Revelation, which I believe is an in depth look AT the cross--nailed his ear to the door. He laid his head on Jesus' breast. And guess what happened when he did that; He heard the heartbeat of God. That's why, in my opinion, John was such a great Revelator. Why all of his letters to the churches were all about love. That's what happens to us when we make the decision to stay in our master's house. (And I prefer the picture of our FATHER'S house, because I think if we see God as our boss we'll continue to operate under the mindset of someone trying to earn something, which is not right... but we'll get to the tomorrow.) My grandma always talks about baptism as entering into the covenant. And I like that. Because when God MADE the covenant, way back in the time of Abraham, He made it between Himself... and Himself. Abraham was asleep at the time--in a posture of rest. God did all the work. And He made the covenant an everlasting covenant. Because, since He's holding up both ends of it, in order for it to fail HE would have to fail. The point being... the truth is the truth no matter what. But unless you know it and believe it the truth doesn't help you out a whole ton. It's the truth you KNOW that sets you free and makes you free. It's the covenant you've entered into that you can enjoy the benefits of. Ok. I said all of that to say this: nailing your ear to the door--or being baptized, as it were--is a declaration of where you stand. Who your master is. Back in those days when someone bought a slave they would baptize them in their name. That marked the slave. It let everyone know who he belonged to. So if you mark yourself... that's a powerful thing. If you nail your ear to the door--Jesus' breast--you can hear the heartbeat of God. You can literally fill yourself with what you've been filled with, so that it overflows out of you. Naturally. So that what you have becomes who you are. Your true identity shines forth. You don't just have love, but because you are loved... you are love! That's where your heart is. That's where your home is!

A few days ago I said I was going to Rant about the Love Slave. But then my mind did what it does and went in a completely different direction. But I still want to explore this, because I think it's important that we understand that the grass is NOT always greener on the other side. Sometimes the best place you can be... is home. And home is where your heart is. Home is where you hang your hat. Home is where they HAVE to accept you, because home is family. So look at Deuteronomy 15:16-17 in the NLT, "But suppose your servant says, 'I will not leave you,' because he loves you and your family, and he has done well with you. In that case, take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door. After that, he will be your servant for life. And do the same for your female servants." Ok. Context. When the people of Israel had servants, they were required to let them go free after six years of service. The seventh year representing the Sabbath, right? The day of rest? But what we see here is someone who sold himself into service--a slave--who found out that it's better in his master's house than anywhere else. We're going to look at a similar picture later on in this Rant series. And anytime the Bible repeats itself... you know that's important. So we have this fella who has a chance to leave. But he doesn't want to. Because he loves his master. He's done well where he's at. Listen, I always say: If you want something different DO something different. UNLESS you're building something. In which case... stay the course. I think sometimes we want change for change's sake. And that's not always a good thing. I do believe more is lost by indecision than wrong decision. And I do believe fortune favors the bold. But I DON'T believe in doing something just to do it. I think we should do things on purpose, for purpose, and by purpose. I try to teach my son to always have a reason for doing the things he is doing. So this servant isn't making the decision to stay just to stay. And he isn't doing it out of fear of what's out there. He's doing it for love. And I 100% believe that is the best (perhaps ONLY) reason you should do anything. Do it because it's in your heart to do it. Do it because you are letting your heart be your guide. I've heard it said that the best way to judge a decision is whether or not it's a Kingdom decision. And the Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy. If a decision fills you with righteousness, peace, and joy... you're probably ok. If you're doing what you're doing because love made you do it... that's a safe place to be. So just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Our servant here COULD have left his master's house. But he was happy where he was. Content. He loved his master. He didn't want to leave. And that's ok. Because the grass is NOT always greener on the other side. Sometimes, you're right where you need to be. And, as we like to say, it came to pass not to stay. So if you're happy where you are right now... stay there. For right now. And then, if you need to, reevaluate later on. Tomorrow we're going to talk about the awl, and nailing the ear to the door. It's pretty awesome. Don't miss it!