Lately I’ve been contemplating this idea of the standard of living. This generation seems to feed off of living in the ambiguity of mediocrity, of aiming for the expectation level, of drawing satisfaction from just getting by... It seems like we’ve stopped dreaming and have settled for much too short of the fairytale... maybe ending up with the coachman instead of the prince (I’m not advocating that the coachman never get a girl, okay...) But we’ve trained ourselves to think this way so never get hurt or run the risk of being...ouch...disappointed...
Anyway, this is not exclusive to meeting our ’S.O.’ (significant other). We’ve been conditioned with this capped expectation level in our careers, lifestyles, even friendships...
To an extent, it seems like this generation has been starved of hope and possibility to the point that it’s stopped trying…like that picture of the elephant held in captivity that’s leg is tied up...eventually without even having a rope on his leg, he will still stay in that same place because his mind has been conditioned to think that he is limited.
Well I think there’s a solution... In the Message Bible, it says "Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God....Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." (Romans 12:2). The world says your dreams are a waste of time, but I believe that not only does God want us to rise to a new expectation level, but promises that He’ll give us the stamina to get there (and heighten our maturity along the way).
So I’ve been challenged, and extend this same challenge to you (haha...to all of you, my readers!), to DREAM BIG…to not settle for the hills and valleys of life only to return to the same, worn-out spot, but to up your faith to a higher point and believe that with a little work, a lot of heart, and God, anything is possible.
What's the standard of living that I'm believing for? To change the stinkin’ world of course!
What's the standard of living that I'm believing for? To change the stinkin’ world of course! 
