Finding what you need

Have you ever gone to the store to find something you think you need only to discover that they don't have it, but there is something else that would do what you wanted even better only they don't have that in stock either? Five hundred thousand items and they don't have the one you need or even the one that's close enough. It has taken you long enough to even go to the store so this circumstance may set off a relentless pursuit of that thing. It begs the question, "how do we find what we need?" Maybe the better question though is, "how do we know what we need?" In the world of big box chains and bulk stores we get lots of lots of things, but that doesn't make any of them what we need. In the world of the internet there is very little which is out of reach, but even this does not help us in knowing what it is we really need. Need comes the feeling of emptiness or incompleteness when something is not there. It is the hunger for more that is so much stronger than even the greatest desire. Tom Cruise's line in Jerry Maguire may seem cheesy, but "you complete me," is a pretty good statement of understanding need. It may not be quite as dramatic, but it is a feeling of must. Someone else's need to do something may be hard to understand, but you just have to let yourself think of those things you need and allow that understanding to take over. They are not always easy to explain, but we know them when they find us and they consume us (hopefully in a good way). What do you need? What is missing? Lent is a time to find what you need.