{"id":795,"date":"2023-09-05T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/?p=795"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:50:55","slug":"the-only-shape-that-fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/09\/05\/the-only-shape-that-fits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Shape That Fits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most of us have enjoyed the beauty of a painting. Artists spend their time crafting what they believe to be a good painting. When they are done, they sign the painting somewhere on the canvas. The creator makes a mark on the painting that only he can make signifying it is his. Our Creator did the same thing. I\u2019ll explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in the doctor\u2019s office waiting room with my daughter watching a few kids play. One kid concerned me a little. She kept trying to put the square piece in the round hole. Over and over she tried. She finally threw the square piece. Then she picked up the triangle piece and put it in the round hole. Again, didn\u2019t fit. She threw that one too. It seemed no matter which block she picked up, if it wasn\u2019t the round one, it wasn\u2019t going to fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it hit me. This is exactly what we do in life. We go through life trying to find something that will fill the hole in our inner most beings, but it never seems to fit perfectly. We look up and wonder why we are still miserable.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I recently watched the Johnny Football documentary. He had achieved everything he had ever dreamed of and more. He was a D1 star. He made more money than he knew what to do with. He beat Alabama. Ha. He won the Heisman as a freshman. He was drafted in the first round of the NFL. Then, sitting on his couch in Cleveland, he was miserable. All of that still didn\u2019t equate to fulfillment. He tried taking his own life. The only reason he\u2019s alive is because the gun malfunctioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s the time Deion Sanders attempted to take his own life after winning the super bowl 3 times. Or how about the time Dennis Rodman contemplated taking his own life. He had won championships. But he was miserable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robin Williams was a living legend. Kate Spade had more money than I\u2019ll ever see. Anthony Bourdain had his own show traveling the world doing what he loved. It wasn\u2019t enough. There\u2019s a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a hole or void in our souls in a certain shape. It\u2019s the shape of God. We have all tried to put things there that don\u2019t fit. Money, substances, fame, cars, friends, careers, our spouses, our kids. They don\u2019t fit. But we try to make them fit. Then we look around and wonder why we are miserable. We are miserable because we are trying to make a square block fit in to a round hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to the creation, the Creator was clever. He made you almost<\/em> whole. But he left one piece out. And made sure that it was only in the shape of Him. After all, He did say He made us in His image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you are in a place where you can\u2019t figure out why you are miserable, apathetic, sad, frustrated, lonely, full of anxiety\u2026 it may be that you still need to fill that void with the right shape. If you will just give up trying the other things, that don\u2019t seem to be working, and fill your void with the shape of God, you will find that there\u2019s peace and relaxation in this. Try it. What do you have to lose?    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of us have enjoyed the beauty of a painting. Artists spend their time crafting what they believe to be a good painting. When they are done, they sign the painting somewhere on the canvas. The creator makes a mark on the painting that only he can make signifying it is his. Our Creator did … <\/p>\n

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