Square peg in a round hole...

How many of you remember those "work bench" toys when you were a kid...the kind that had different shaped holes cut out for you to hammer the pieces through...you had the round hole, square hole, star hole, etc...My mom always told me how I would force the pieces through, regardless of the shape hole...what ever one i landed on...was the one the piece was going through...be it through me hammering, stomping or smashing...sometimes the pieces would fit through the wrong hole with out problems or sometimes I would just land on the right hole...I bring this up because I have been thinking about how people fit in their lives...be in volunteering, working, whatever...I think our lives are alot like that work bench. God has designed us for as specific part...a special need...and we have a special place in this world...however, many of us take the route I did as a child and just try to force ourselves into a situation..even when we clearly are not intended for that. Sometimes it feels like we found our fit because things are going smoothly only to find out later that we are in the wrong spot (ie. the circle piece sliding through the square hole)...while the fit may seem fine, we then find ourselves working harder to increase our weaknesses, rather than increasing our strengths that God has given us. Then there are the times that we take our time...pray...and figure out where we belong. This idea helps to explain alot for me. It explains alot of the problems with volunteers...many of them are circle pegs being hammered into star holes...just because we need a star piece...it explains alot of the problems with marriages...with careers...with everything. If we all took our time, prayed, we believe we would find our "hole"...but in our fast paced, results now world...i think we all go "little eric" style and just hammer away...trying to make it fit "our" way.