The Perfect Fit

As many of you know I have a few quirks. That was a rhetorical statement, no comment needed. Whether it be my love for corn nuts and chocolate milk, my affinity for shoes or my love for odd sitcoms like Scrubs. I have the same level of attachment to my hats that I do to shoes. I have a wide selection of hats. Many of them I do not wear because they do not fit well. You see I am always searching for the perfectly fitting hat. It is a lot like shoe shopping. I have learned that if the hat does not fit right in the store then it will never fit right. I have made that mistake more than once with both shoes and hats.

Every once in a while I find that perfectly fitting hat. When I do I will wear it out. I have done this with more than one Boston hat. They generally feel best once they are faded and about a year old. I am currently without that perfectly fitting hat, I have pretty good Boston hat right now and I recently purchased a nice Sounds hat. But neither of them fit the bill of fitting perfectly.

This idea came into my head today as I watched an IMAX movie about the perfect wave in Tahiti. It was a really interesting movie that featured the world surfing champion and a local surfer from Tahiti. The local is known worldwide and he won't take just anyone out to surf the 'demon' wave. At one point they were sitting on the shore waiting because the waves were just not coming that day. He basically said you just have to be patient because you cannot control the waves.

Now if you have read this far you may be shaking your head because perhaps you expected more than a lecture on patience. But I think that is here we find ourselves. Waiting and being patient are in short supply in our 'me' focused world. What is worse is the overall feeling of being entitled to having our desires filled immediately. Waiting is rarely part of our bag of tricks. This is why I have a closet full of shoes and hats I will not wear.

Too often we sit back and take stock of our lives and we lament instead of being satisfied and happy. We lament dreams unfulfilled, we lament situations that are bad and show no sign of getting better, and list goes on and on. We could easily look back and see the wondrous things God has done when we just had patience and let him work. So I pray for an extra measure of patience for you today, may you rest this day in the arms of God, because that is the only place we will ever fit perfectly.