One size fits all!

The phrase 'one size fits all' is always troubling to me, perhaps one size fits most, but very rarely can you actually find something that is truly one size fits all.  For my husband, it is hats, do they have a 'big and tall' version for hat stores?  There's a song from the Veggietales series wherein a certain cucumber is trying to sell pants on an infomercial sort of show, which is ironic as the veggies in these tales never actually wear pants, but he is offering 'one size fits all,' and promises 'pants if you're short or shorts if you're tall,' sung to such a catchy beat you almost want to buy some, but at least they are having fun with the idea that there can ever be such a concept.  Even politically, have you ever noticed all women are the same, all the people of a certain race are the same, whatever your political demographic, you are all the same, except we aren't.  I'm a unique individual, while I may share beliefs, traits, opinions, or ideas in common with certain other individuals that doesn't make me them or them me.

Our material obsessed culture has tried to express its individuality by making certain items more coveted and therefore valuable and 'unique' though 100,000 other people already own the same item, but that's like painting identical fenceposts different colors, sure they are all a unique color, but inside they're just wood and exactly alike.  Politics and stuff can't save us, where then is our identity found? History?  Genetics?  Biology?  Relationships?  Hobbies?  Money?  Fame?  Power? Mind altering substances?  Career?  Nope, we've tried all that, if not you personally, then millions of folk down through the ages and none of them are happy, just check the celebrity gossip magazines or your own family history.  The writer of Ecclesiastes some three or four millennia back repined this very phenomenon, wondering what life was truly about.  He made quite a curious comment upon the matter, stating, 'God has put eternity into the hearts of men.'

Eternity?  In the heart of a mortal creature?  Today, the beginning of Lent on the Christian calendar, many will hear the words 'from dust though art to dust thou shalt return.'  A reminder of our mortality.  But 40 days hence, we hear the words of victory and the answer to that age old question, 'death where is thy victory, grave thy sting!'  That's the answer to 'Life, the Universe, and Everything,' as it were, not '42' as fun as that is.  We can't find a hat that will fit all heads but we can find Something so big and wonderful that all men may find the answer to life's greatest riddle and Life indeed.