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[00:00] Welcome to Joy Filled. I'm your host, Jenna, and this is the Couch Chat Coffee Cup in Hand Podcast for Christian moms who want to thrive in the hard and holy work of motherhood. Here, we push back against the lie that being just a mom is small and instead celebrate the high calling of shaping hearts and homes for Jesus. We chat about faith, motherhood, and the everyday joys and struggles of raising kids. I'm in it with you and so are countless other moms, and most importantly, Jesus himself. So together, we'll laugh, learn, and lean into grace as we navigate all the sleepless nights, sticky floors, and soul-stretching moments that motherhood has to offer, all while looking for the joy along the way. Because there is so much joy to be found, so let's experience it together. Have you ever opened Instagram for just a second and then you end up spending way too long on the app, and then when you finally decide to close the app, you end up feeling even worse than you did when you opened it? Suddenly, her house feels cleaner than yours, her mornings feel calmer than yours, her body looks better, her kids are better behaved, her routines are working, her life looks beautiful, and yours just looks messy. Before you know it, comparison has talked you out of the joy that was sitting right in front of you. We're going to talk all about it today because friend, if that's you, trust me, it's been me too, it's been all of us. Let's today talk about comparison as moms. If this is your first time tuning in or you took a break from listening to Joy Filled and you're back, or first time listening in a while, I want to say, hey, welcome. I'm Jenna, I'm the host here. If you missed it, we're in a series called Blooming and Becoming. If you've been with me from day one, you know that Joy Filled has been on a lot of different journeys. We've done a lot of different things with the podcast. We've had seasons where it's all interviews and I'm bringing new people on every single week. We've had seasons where I took a break and stepped back. I just came out of a season like that recently where I took a long break from the podcast. We've had seasons where it was just like seasons where I was pumping out two episodes a week. We've had seasons, all kinds of seasons on the podcast. But the one thing that I hadn't actually done for was doing a series based themed topic season where we do 10 to 12 weeks around a topic. We take a break and then we come back for 10 more weeks around a certain topic. Take a break. And in this season, which if you listen to, I put up an episode a few months ago talking about just like really honestly this season of motherhood and my mental health and just really like kind of just pulled out the curtain on what's going on. And I found that for me, the best way to still show up here for you and also make it be life giving and something that works in my season of life right now is to switch the format of this podcast a little bit to do seasons. And I'm really excited about it. I don't know about you, but I really loved this spring season. We've been talking all about becoming, becoming the most vibrant version of ourselves. We're calling it Blooming and Becoming. And I really felt like it was such a fitting theme for spring. This week is week five. So if you haven't, go back and listen to the first four weeks. I'm trying to keep these episodes short and sweet, 20 to 30 minutes. So you can just pop in an earbud while you're folding laundry or doing the dishes or, you know, on your commute to work or in the school pickup line. I don't want to have to take up too much of your time. I just want it to be quick, easy to listen to. And I hope my hope is that you walk away with something really tangible, some encouragement, something practical you can apply to your life. But I've really been if you've if you've been here, you know that I've been on this journey. We'll call it becoming the most vibrant version of myself. I started the year actually, which again, you can go back and listen to that episode from the beginning of the year. But I started the year and I really felt like the Lord pressed on my heart this word vibrant and the verse John 10 10, which was I have come so that you might have life and have it to the full or life and life abundantly is as some translations say. And I really felt convicted like I am not living that abundant life that Jesus came to give me. And so I started just praying and meditating on this verse and and thinking on like what would it look like for me to step into that abundant life for me to step into that vibrant life that Jesus has for me. And this year I've really committed to that. And I'm so excited that it's April and I'm still just as committed as ever, even more honestly committed to figuring out what becoming the most vibrant version of myself and living the most vibrant full life that I can live, figuring out what that looks like. Usually in the past, if I come up with a word for the year or verse for the year, I've lost it by February or March. So this one just felt different and it's spilled over here to the podcast. And I don't think that's a bad thing. I think that maybe it was not just a message for me, but maybe it was something that is for all of us. And so anyways, that's just my little plug about this season of the podcast. If you're jumping in in the middle of it, go back and listen to the last couple episodes where we've been talking about abundant life and what it looks like. We've been talking about becoming. We talked about overwhelm. We talked about living fully alive and what that looks like. And today we're going to talk about comparison because I feel like we can't have a conversation about becoming the most vibrant version of yourself and really blooming and becoming and stepping into what God has for you, whatever that looks like for you, stepping into the life and life to the full that Jesus has for you. We can't talk about that without addressing comparison because this is one of the biggest traps that the enemy uses, especially for us as women, for us as moms, and especially in our day and age of social media and the Internet. But even before, I mean, all the way back to the Bible, like we see countless times women struggling with comparison. We see Leah and Rachel struggling with comparison and we see the same thing with the Bible, we see the same policy and comparison. And there's so many stories of just like, we see Moses saying, no, I can't, I have a stutter, like pick somebody else, I can't do this. We see so many people in the Bible struggling with comparison and it's such a trap. And especially for us in motherhood, it's a trap that can really steal our joy if we're not careful. Because comparison, it shifts our attention and it pulls us out of the faithfulness and tending to our work and being really, it pulls us out of gratitude, it pulls us out of faithfulness and into performing. And like, how can I perform better? It makes this question our motherhood, it makes this question our bodies, our homes, our callings, our worth. And the truth is that God never asked us to measure up to someone else's life. He asked us to be faithful with the life that he gave us, the kids that he gave us, the home that he gave us, the circumstances that he's given us. He's asked us to be faithful. And when I think about comparison, one of the verses that really sticks out in my mind and that I often come back to is Psalm 16. In my Bible, it is titled Confidence in the Lord. And I'm going to read some of it for us. Starting in verse 5, it says, Lord, you are my portion and my cup of blessing. You hold my future. What a heart posture to have. Lord, you are my portion and my cup of blessing. You hold my future. Like, if we just meditate on that, if we just had that heart posture to start our day with, maybe this is a verse. I think that when I finish reading these scriptures, I want you to go to your Bible and I want you to find like a sticky note or a index card or just even like a piece of scrap paper. I want you to write out these verses and I want you to put them somewhere where you can see them all the time. Maybe that's your fridge, maybe that's your mirror, maybe that's your nightstand, maybe it's in your car. I want you to put these verses somewhere where you can see them because this is such a good scripture to meditate on. How we meditate on scripture is we put it where we can see it. We put it in places to remind us of the scripture that we're trying to meditate on. Lord, you are my portion and my cup of blessing. You hold my future. And this, David is writing this when he's on the run from King Saul and his army. He's out trying to kill him and David's on the run. He's in hiding and he really has no reason to be saying these words. And yet he says, Lord, you are my portion and my cup of blessing. You hold my future. And then in verse six, it says the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I will bless the Lord who counsels me even at night when my thoughts trouble me. I always let the Lord guide me because he is at my right hand. I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices. My body also rests securely. For you will not abandon me. You will not allow your faithful one to see decay. And then verse 11, it says, you reveal the path of life to me. In your presence is abundant joy at your right hand or eternal pleasures. Have you ever stopped and wondered who creates the comfort that makes a house feel like home? Because it's you, right? It's the way you wake up before everyone else. The way you carry the mental load that no one sees. The way you make ordinary moments feel safe and warm for your kids and your family. And I was thinking about that the other day. What would it feel like for you to be cared for in those same quiet moments? 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So 5 and 6, the Lord, you are my portion and my cup of blessing. You hold my future. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. Maybe when you start to compare, when those comparison thoughts start to come into your head, you just stop and you say the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Like when your mind starts running like, oh, this house, if I only had a bigger house or if I only had a nicer house or if I only was able to stay home with my kids, I didn't have to work, if only my circumstances were better, if only my husband had a better job, if only we made a little more money. Nope, the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. If we start going, oh, if only I had what she has, oh, if only I had the help that she has, if only I was able to have time to work out like she does or to take care of myself like she does or if only I had this and I had that. Nope, the boundary lines have fallen for you in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. Then we go to verse 11 and we say, you reveal the path of life to me in your presence is abundant joy. At your right hand are eternal pleasures. That is our heart posture. When we are falling down that comparison hole, when we are stuck in that trap, we come to Psalm 16 and we say, Lord, you are my portion and my cup of blessing. You hold my future. I don't hold my future. They don't hold my future. My husband doesn't hold my future. My job doesn't hold my future. The things I depend on don't hold my future. You hold my future. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Help me to see these boundary lines as pleasant places. It's so easy. When we think of a boundary line, we think of a fence, and I think a lot of us, we live our life when we think of a home with a yard and a fence. I look at my fence, I'm looking out my window right now, and I look at the fence that is lining our backyard, and I am grateful for that fence because it keeps my kids safe, it keeps my dog safe. I don't have to worry when I open up the back door, they can just run out and play. I don't have to worry about what's going on out there because it's keeping them protected, it's keeping stuff that I don't want in the backyard out, and it's keeping what I do want in the backyard in. The boundary line around my home, the fence that I'm looking at right now, I'm thankful for it. I don't see it as something that is like, oh, well, if only this fence wasn't here, then I'd be able to go over there. I've not ever thought that about the fence around my backyard. When we bought this house, I thought to myself, I'm so thankful. This house is a fully fenced backyard. When a home is listed on the market, one of the things that a realtor will list as something that is a benefit or something that's really great about the home is fully fenced backyard. That's something we look for, a fully fenced backyard. Not because we don't see boundaries as, like when we're thinking of our home, we don't see boundaries as a bad thing. We're keeping the stuff we want in the yard in it, and we're keeping the stuff we don't want in it out of the yard. We love a fully fenced backyard. We want a fully fenced backyard. Why then in our life, when God places boundary lines, do we start throwing a temper tantrum and start comparing to what everyone else has? Instead of taking this stance of the boundary lines, the fences that God has placed around the things that I have are here on purpose, and they have fallen for me in pleasant places. God, you reveal the path of life to me. In your presence is abundant joy. At your right hand are eternal pleasures. This is really the framework for how in my life, this is how I approach comparison. And I don't think comparison is something that we'll ever not struggle with. Like, I don't think it's something that we'll ever be like, oh, no, I never compare. Like, we're human, we're flesh. Like, this is just part of it. This part of our human experience, I think, at least from at least my human experience. Maybe you've never compared in your life. I highly doubt that, but maybe you haven't. So if comparison is something that we're always going to be having to be on guard against, we've got to have a plan. We've got to have a way to go about it. And so I want to talk through that. And I also want to talk through what comparison is and how we can just have tools in our tool belt to fight it. But more than anything, I really just want to take it as much time as I can on this scripture. And like I said, really, truly pause this right now and get your Bible out. And go highlight, grab a sticky note or an index card, grab something, write it out and put it somewhere where you can see it. If comparison is something that you're struggling with, if discontentment is something that you're struggling with, write this out and put it somewhere where you can see it and start speaking it over, start meditating on it, start praying it over your home and yourself. And just watch how God changes your heart because he will. When we that is one way that we pray is by repeating his words back to him. And so we can take these words, this all the Psalms, especially the Psalms are prayers and notes to God. And so we can take these words of David and we can regurgitate them back to God and use them as our prayers. So I want to talk about what comparison is and what it does to our hearts. So comparison is more than just like a social media problem. It's more than, you know, it's more than just like, oh, you know, she has a better home than me or she has a different whatever than me. It really is a heart issue and we've kind of gotten into that already. But comparison doesn't just make us admire someone else's life. Like it's fine to admire someone else's life. It is fine even to want more for your family. It's fine to, you know, have goals and want to work for something more and want to give your kids a better life. And like all of those things are great. But comparison doesn't just make us admire someone else's life. It often makes us distrust our own and it makes us lose faith in God and what he's doing in this season of our lives. When we start putting our eyes on somebody else, it takes our eyes off of God. Like our eyes can only be one place at a time. So if our eyes are on somebody else and their home and their family and their fill in the blank, they're not on God. And that's honestly where we need to keep our eyes. And when we fall into this trap of comparison, it really, it can produce a lot in our hearts as moms, I think, without even realizing it. We start to become insecure. We start to have this attitude of striving, like that performance based attitude that I talked about earlier, where like we're not just trying to be faithful anymore. We're really trying to perform and strive. It produces discontentment. It honestly can make us self-conscious. Like I know there have been times when I have not wanted to invite people into my home because I was embarrassed of my home because I was comparing it to other people online, like just being real. Like I live in a very small home. It's old. It has a lot of work that needs to be done. And sometimes I've found myself feeling like, like, oh, if I, if I just had like, like a nicer couch, then like it would be fine. Or like if I just had this and this and this, it would be fine and I'd feel more comfortable inviting people into my home or whatever. And that's just like, that's so silly. People don't care. Like, I never, I don't go to somebody's house and care about anything other than just like the company and, and the person that I'm going there to see. So it's just silly. But anyways, comparison can produce resentment in our hearts. It can produce almost like a numbness to your own blessings. Like it can really make us take advantage of, or just take for granted what has been given to us. And one thing I've noticed in my own life is that when comparison comes, joy tends to leave. So if we're really, if we're trying to lead joy filled lives, if we're trying to live, you know, that life and life to the full, comparison can't have a place there. And it becomes really hard to be present in your own life when you're mentally measuring it against someone else's all the time. And that's just not, that's not the life that God has for us. Like that is not, there's, there's so much more for us. And that I just, as someone who has struggled with comparison for so long, and someone who's, like, I'm not afraid to admit that, like, I am online a lot, and I am on social, like, I'm on all the apps, I'm on social media, I'm on, you know, I'm on it all. And I just, it is so hard with our era, our generation of Instagram and TikTok and the curated life. And like I said, I'm on everything. I'm not anti-social media, but I'm just like, we are constantly comparing our real life to someone else's highlight reel. We're measuring our behind the scenes against like something that's curated and like shot for the angles and all of that. Like we're forgetting that every woman online is also carrying hard things that we can't see. And Instagram, it's fun and it can be inspiring, but it does become dangerous when we start using it as a measuring stick for our worth. And I think that like, it's not to say we shouldn't be on Instagram because I believe that Instagram is where the world is right now. And we need like, God needs light. He needs us to go be salt and light. But how can we be salt and light in spaces like social media, spaces online? How can we be salt and light if we're going there and treating it the same way that the world treats it? Going in there to compare, going in there to consume. Like, that is not us being salt and light. If we're going to use social media, let's use it for the good of others and the glory of God. Let's use it to be salt and light to the earth. Let's use it to go and tell the good news to all the nations, right? So maybe have that, you know, maybe you need to check your social media usage. And if it's just, if you're only using social media to compare or to go on and scroll and you end up comparing and you end up going down these rabbit holes, maybe it's time to stop consuming and it's time to start creating content that allows you to be salt and light to the world because I think it's, it can be a really dark place and I think that the Lord needs more light. He needs more, more of us who are willing to go into these spaces like the internet and go and tell the good news. But back to comparison, because I know I went on a little tangent about social media, but back to comparison. Comparison, like I said at the beginning, comparison turns faithfulness into performance. Faithfulness, when we are truly being faithful with our calling, when we're truly being faithful with what the Lord has given us and the boundary lines that he's given our life. Faithfulness says, Lord, help me be obedient in the life that you've given me. Help me be obedient, help me steward my home and my kids and my body and my marriage. Help me steward all of the things, my work, my calling. Help me steward it all with you. And performance says, I need to prove I'm doing enough. I need to look like her. I need to earn my worth. I need motherhood to appear impressive. I need to, I need to put on a front so that I can, you know, I can be the, I need, I need to be the mom that looks effortless. I need to be the mom that looks like she's got it all together. I need to be the mom at the park with all the right snacks and all the right things. And I, I need to, I need to do it all and have it all and be it all. And that's not like we're. If that's the goal, we're missing it, right? Like comparison is so tempting and it tempts us to stop asking, am I being faithful? Like that should be the question at the end of the day. Like was I faithful today? And that at the start of the day, Lord, help me be faithful. But when we start to compare and we let that that route of comparison, we let it grow and we let it take root into our hearts and into our minds, we stop asking, am I being faithful? And we start asking, do I look impressive? And maybe this is uncomfortable to hear. So I just want to tell you, I'm not coming at this as like a holier than now, like, oh, you need to stop. I'm coming at this as someone who has walked through this. I will admit to you right now that I have had many times where I have cared more about looking impressive or being appearing like effortless and like, oh, I've got four kids. It's no big deal. I'm not struggling. It wasn't even hard to get them all out the door today. I am being real with you. There are more times than I'd like to admit where I care way less about being faithful and I care way more about how I'm perceived by other people or what they think about me. Like, that is a huge thing for me. So if this is convicting you, just know it convict me first and we're in the same boat. So I just want to encourage you, God never asked you to mother her children or to live in her house or carry her calling. You were given your children on purpose, your home, your personality, your capacity, your season. None of it is accidental and God gives you grace for the assignment. He gives you grace for the boundaries that he's placed in your life and grace for your assignment won't always look like grace for hers. This is why often we say things like, Oh, I don't know how you do that. I don't know how you got through that or I don't know how you can handle that. It's like, well, God graces us for it. Yeah, I can't imagine handling. I look at moms who have four kids and then get pregnant with triplets or something, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't know how you handle that. But for her walking through it, she's like, I'm just doing it. It's because God graces you for what he gives you, but he doesn't grace you for the calling that he hasn't given you yet, he doesn't grace you for the calling that he's given somebody else. He graces you for the calling that he's given you. So just run your race, right? Like be faithful where you're at. The call on your life requires obedience, not imitation, right? God's not asking you to recreate someone else's motherhood. We have to stop thinking that just because we're inspired by somebody means we need to do it exactly like them. He's not asking you to recreate someone else's motherhood. He's asking you to be faithful in your own. The boundary lines have fallen for you in pleasant places. Indeed, you have a beautiful inheritance and he is your portion and your cup of blessing and he holds your future. Like we might not always understand the boundary lines. We might not always like the boundary lines. We might have times when we definitely wish for someone else's boundary lines. But God graced us for our own boundary lines that he's given us and for the calling that he's given you and the assignment that he's given you. So I want to talk really quick about how to catch comparison, how to catch the seed before it turns into a root. Because once it takes root, it's really hard to dig up and that root steals the joy of motherhood. I don't want that for you. I don't want that for me. I don't want that for any of us. When you notice comparison, that little seed of comparison creeping in, here are a few things that I do and here's a few things you can do. Number one, notice it quickly. Call it what it is. Just like that I'm comparing right now. Like that awareness really is the first step of changing and uprooting that seed and getting it out before it takes root. Notice it and call it out. Number two, get curious about the insecurity underneath it. Asking yourself like what is this triggering in me? Where do I feel less than what lie am I believing about myself or about my family or about my home or, you know, about my motherhood? What lie am I believing that's causing me to feel this seed of comparison? And then always number three, come back to gratitude because gratitude is the root of all good things. Not in a cheesy way, but in a really grounding way. Like what is actually good in my life right now? Because like I said, I think comparison is something that will always have to be guarding against and fighting against. And sometimes like I will be honest with you. It's easy to sit behind a microphone and be like, the boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places for you. Like, so just enjoy your boundary lines and give a metaphor about the fence in my backyard and I'm so grateful for it. But I would be lying to you if I told you that I was always so thankful and grateful for all of the boundary lines that God has given me in places in my life. Like, no, that is hard. But gratitude, when we feel that seed of comparison or discontentment, gratitude is what grounds us. What is good in my life right now? Where am I seeing God? What is bringing me joy? This is where, this is where the initial, this is where joy hunts started for me. If you've been around for a long time, you know that I love to go on a joy hunt, which just means going and looking and noticing the joy that's right in front of me, that's all around me, and choosing to see all of the little things as gifts from God. And so coming back to gratitude, going on a joy hunt and really just grounding yourself in those true things. What is actually good? Where has God blessed me in my life? The next one is protect your mind and limit what feeds that discontentment. This could mean unfollowing people, muting people, taking a break from social media. Like I am not just social media, but really anything that is, you know, feeding comparison. Like it could be shows, books. There's like any kind of media. It can seep in. Even, yeah, I know for me, like I really have, there's people that I follow on social media that I'm really inspired by. And I really love to follow, but there have been seasons in my life where I had to mute them, which the mute option is really fantastic because you're not unfollowing. You're just like silencing them for a little bit so you don't see their stuff. And it's nothing they did. It's all a me thing. Like it's not you. It's definitely me. Like this is not seeing your stuff is not helpful to me. I know when I was walking through miscarriages and I really was desiring to get pregnant, it was really hard for me to see like pregnancy announcements and things like that. So like there were people who were sharing their pregnancy and I was like, I'm happy for you, but it just was hard to see. And so I would mute it and it's like, that is okay. That's just protecting your mindset and limiting what feeds that discontentment and that root or that seed of comparison. And then lastly, always just returning to faithfulness and asking, what has God asked of me today? Where can I be found faithful? What does obedience look like in my real life? So that's how we can kind of catch that that seed of comparison before it takes root and before it becomes something really ugly and not of the Lord. Because, you know, joy grows where faithfulness lives. The more we can really embody this heart posture of, Lord, you're my portion, my cup of blessing, you hold my future. And we really start to believe that the boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places for us. The more we start to experience joy in our lives, not because anything changed, but because we did. It's not found, joy is not found in becoming someone else or having a different life. It's found in just being fully present to the life that God has actually given you. Your children need you, not a polished version of someone online, they need you. Your home doesn't need to look impressive to be holy, right? Like your life does not need to be aesthetic, to be abundant. Your small faithfulness every single day, it matters to God and it matters to your kids and your family. And it matters to anything that's inside your boundary lines. Like, instead of seeing those things that you wish were different, the boundary lines that God has placed in your life, maybe it's time you start looking at them with a different perspective. Maybe it's time you stop peeking over the fence to somebody else's yard and to see all the cool stuff they have in their yard, and you start just tilling the soil in your own yard. This is again, as I'm looking out the window at my backyard, like our backyard needs a lot of work. It definitely needs some tender loving care, and we have neighbors who have lived in their home for 10, 20 years, and their backyards are beautiful, like stunning, like look like an oasis. It would be really easy for me to stand over the fence all day and be like, oh, it's so cute over there. It's so perfect over there. I wish I had that. When God's like, I gave you soil, I gave you a yard, you've got plenty of space, get to work, get digging, get planting, get working, get to pulling those weeds. Like maybe instead of just staring over the fence at everyone else's boundary, at everyone else's yard, it's time to be thankful for the fence that keeps in what you want to keep in and keeps out what you want to keep out. And then just look at what is inside the boundary line and say, how can I make this better? How can I be faithful here? How can I make this more life giving? How can I make this more like God? Like how can I make this more of what He has for me? Comparison will always invite you to look sideways, but peace is found when you look up at Jesus and you look down at the life that's right in front of you. You don't need to perform your way into worth. You don't need to prove that you are enough. You don't need to live somebody else's life to have a beautiful one. Your joy will grow when you stop measuring and you start stewarding. Let me pray for us real quick before we go. God, I thank you for my sister who's listening. Whatever led her to push play on this episode, I believe it was you and I believe that there are no coincidences. And so I just I pray for the mom who's caught in comparison, who's been feeling that that seed start to take root. Lord, I just ask that you quiet the insecurity and the striving and the pressure and help her fix her eyes on you instead. Lord, I thank you for the boundary lines that you've placed in her life, that they are beautiful and that she has a beautiful inheritance. I pray that she would start to to have this heart posture that you are her portion and her cup of blessing. And we thank you that all blessings come from you. I pray that you would just help her be faithful with what you've given her and help her to see the joy that you've placed right in front of her. I pray blessing over her and her home. And I pray joy unspeakable always over her in Jesus' name, Amen. Thank you so much for listening to today's episode. I hope it encouraged you. And if Joy Filled has been a blessing to you in any way, the best way for you to be a blessing to this podcast is by leaving a written review to help push this show out to other moms just like you. It only takes a minute and your support truly means the world to me. So as a thank you from me to you, I want you to head to the link in the description to grab a free 3-day devotional, Joy for the Journey that I wrote just for you. I hope you enjoy it and I'll see you next time.