I noticed this news article today, about a guy in France who has caught a koi (aka carp aka goldfish) as big as a dog. While the photo in this case may or may not be authentic, it is a fact that koi grow to fit their surroundings.
If you keep your goldfish in a bowl, it will remain an inch or two long forever. If you put it in a pond it will grow to fit the pond. There are apparently documented specimens over 90 lbs. The one in the Yahoo story is given as 30 lbs, so you can imagine how gigantic a 90 lb carp would be!
How often do we grow to fit our situation?
If our circumstances require us to stretch and grow, do we remain bait for bigger fish, or do we fill our space?
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Shawn L. Bird 
I love the idea of being able to grow into our roomy surroundings! We all can stretch our gills if we are not cloistered in too small of a pond! I’m with the growing fish – let me be free and expansive!