Comments on: The God-Shaped Hole~Things I thought I knew for sure http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/ the online home of Robin Rane Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:04:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Erika Chapmanhttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7674 Erika Chapman Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:05:39 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7674 Hmmm... Never thought if it like that. I think God fills the hole He is supposed to fill, but certainly we are left wanting for more...b/c yes there is more but not here. Not in this place. I guess I haven't looked at that restlessness, that striving for complete peace as not being filled up though. More as my need to rest in Him that He is enough and will be enough. My problem is striving...always the need to be better, do more, experience everything...need to find the balance. Want to enjoy Him where I am at rest, yet filled up to brimming so I can pour out what He offers and at peace with the fact that in this world I will experience yuck and icky feelings and painful emotions. We don't escape that just b/c He fills the hole. Need to read the book. Just got his new small group series called Convergence. It looks good. Thanks for your honesty and challenging thoughts. Love you friend:) xx00 Hmmm… Never thought if it like that. I think God fills the hole He is supposed to fill, but certainly we are left wanting for more…b/c yes there is more but not here. Not in this place. I guess I haven’t looked at that restlessness, that striving for complete peace as not being filled up though. More as my need to rest in Him that He is enough and will be enough. My problem is striving…always the need to be better, do more, experience everything…need to find the balance. Want to enjoy Him where I am at rest, yet filled up to brimming so I can pour out what He offers and at peace with the fact that in this world I will experience yuck and icky feelings and painful emotions. We don’t escape that just b/c He fills the hole. Need to read the book. Just got his new small group series called Convergence. It looks good. Thanks for your honesty and challenging thoughts. Love you friend:) xx00

]]> By: Robinhttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7425 Robin Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:23:49 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7425 Sara L...I'm so glad it resonated a bit with you. Hugs Sara L…I’m so glad it resonated a bit with you. Hugs

]]> By: Sara L.http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7410 Sara L. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:50:44 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7410 Wow --what I just read was like one of those "awakening" moments. You expressed exactly what I have been feeling for quite some time now and now it makes more sense. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am going to re-read this post and do some more pondering and praying!! And now I want to read this book too, :) .-= Sara L.´s last blog ..<a href="http://hunny-poppalewis.blogspot.com/2010/02/project-52-5.html" rel="nofollow">Project 52-5</a> =-. Wow –what I just read was like one of those “awakening” moments. You expressed exactly what I have been feeling for quite some time now and now it makes more sense. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am going to re-read this post and do some more pondering and praying!! And now I want to read this book too, :)
.-= Sara L.´s last blog ..Project 52-5 =-.

]]> By: Celestahttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7338 Celesta Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:46:51 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7338 Hey Robin - I just found this post. Donald Miller says so well what so many of us feel and don't know how to say. And so do you.I went to Chattanooga for the Million Miles tour in November. We should have gone together!Be well! Celesta .-= Celesta´s last blog ..<a href="http://thebloomingandgrowingblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-general-im-not-prone-to-radicalism.html" rel="nofollow">The Care and Feeding of a Fanatic</a> =-. Hey Robin –
I just found this post. Donald Miller says so well what so many of us feel and don’t know how to say. And so do you.

I went to Chattanooga for the Million Miles tour in November. We should have gone together!

Be well!
Celesta
.-= Celesta´s last blog ..The Care and Feeding of a Fanatic =-.

]]> By: Robinhttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7319 Robin Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:41:59 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7319 Tracy...hugs. Tracy…hugs.

]]> By: LISAhttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7291 LISA Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:10:45 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7291 Thank you for sharing from your heart! It almost makes me feel normal to know that others have the same thoughts I do.God Bless, Lisa .-= LISA´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.trinity-house.com/2010/02/road-less-traveled.html" rel="nofollow">~The road less traveled~</a> =-. Thank you for sharing from your heart! It almost makes me feel normal to know that others have the same thoughts I do.

God Bless,
Lisa
.-= LISA´s last blog ..~The road less traveled~ =-.

]]> By: Linda Sellshttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7290 Linda Sells Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:08:44 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7290 ROBIN, this hits home and I so enjoy reading your blogs. You are so wise beyond your years. I believe this is the best keep up the writings. ROBIN, this hits home and I so enjoy reading your blogs. You are so wise beyond your years. I believe this is the best keep up the writings.

]]> By: Linda Sellshttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7289 Linda Sells Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:07:16 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7289 ROBIN, this hits home and I so enjoy reading your blogs. You are so wise beyond your years. I believe this is the best keep up the writings. ROBIN, this hits home and I so enjoy reading your blogs. You are so wise beyond your years. I believe this is the best keep up the writings.

]]> By: Tom Raineshttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7282 Tom Raines Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:02:22 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7282 One more thing...I noticed that when I was looking to Him and praising Him this morning that I couldn't feel or even sense a hole. When I look to me I sense a hole but when I look to Him I can't fathom a whole...weird...really done with this, I hope.... One more thing…I noticed that when I was looking to Him and praising Him this morning that I couldn’t feel or even sense a hole. When I look to me I sense a hole but when I look to Him I can’t fathom a whole…weird…really done with this, I hope….

]]> By: Tom Raineshttp://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/2010/02/03/the-god-shaped-holethings-i-thought-i-knew-for-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-7281 Tom Raines Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:58:12 +0000 http://www.allthingsheartandhome.com/?p=7149#comment-7281 Ok sister, you did it to me this time. For the past couple of days all I have been about to think about is this hole. My perspective has changed so many times I am dizzy and I am having a hard time verbalizing my current perspective. I am so thankful for my hole. Is it a hole to be filled once and for all or is it the pathway? Is it a hunger that should ever be fulfilled once and for all? With no hunger would I ever need any of your delicious recipes. Did I eat only once to be filled to never eat again? My perceptions of God have been proven wrong to me in soooo many ways. I praise God for this "hole" as that is where I find him. Have I tried to fill it with almost everything the world has to offer that really did lead to an emptiness of unfulfilled and broken promises? Yes. The "hole" draws me to Him daily and I seek His Spirit to fill it. And, Praise God I can fill it again and again with many things He as to offer. All I know is that I can not fathom the mind of the Almighty God and my perspective and my understanding can not ever provide a speck of His understanding and purposes. But I find great Joy and excitement to know that He does and will flow through me and draw me to Him at all times forever. Both now and in eternity. Our minds and the legalism of man has sometimes given us the perspective(and guilt trip) that some how a simple prayer is all we need and we are complete. I have felt that guilt and i too have said that sinner's prayer a million times because I didn't think it took... That is only the beginning of the relationship. The relationship blooms daily through this open door to my soul that thank God is not a hole at all but an open corridor where the Holy Spirit He has placed in me communes daily. This is not a disappointment but a blessing... When I finally looked to Him daily to keep me from filling that hole daily with the frightenly wicked things of my nature (even today), He does fill it but some times I throw things in the way to block the flow but He is streaming live at all times.There I am done with it and hope I can move on to something else today, ha! May we be filled today, tomorrow and in all eternity. Thank you for your heart and for making us search our hearts..Have a great day! Ok sister, you did it to me this time. For the past couple of days all I have been about to think about is this hole. My perspective has changed so many times I am dizzy and I am having a hard time verbalizing my current perspective. I am so thankful for my hole. Is it a hole to be filled once and for all or is it the pathway? Is it a hunger that should ever be fulfilled once and for all? With no hunger would I ever need any of your delicious recipes. Did I eat only once to be filled to never eat again? My perceptions of God have been proven wrong to me in soooo many ways. I praise God for this “hole” as that is where I find him. Have I tried to fill it with almost everything the world has to offer that really did lead to an emptiness of unfulfilled and broken promises? Yes. The “hole” draws me to Him daily and I seek His Spirit to fill it. And, Praise God I can fill it again and again with many things He as to offer. All I know is that I can not fathom the mind of the Almighty God and my perspective and my understanding can not ever provide a speck of His understanding and purposes. But I find great Joy and excitement to know that He does and will flow through me and draw me to Him at all times forever. Both now and in eternity. Our minds and the legalism of man has sometimes given us the perspective(and guilt trip) that some how a simple prayer is all we need and we are complete. I have felt that guilt and i too have said that sinner’s prayer a million times because I didn’t think it took… That is only the beginning of the relationship. The relationship blooms daily through this open door to my soul that thank God is not a hole at all but an open corridor where the Holy Spirit He has placed in me communes daily. This is not a disappointment but a blessing… When I finally looked to Him daily to keep me from filling that hole daily with the frightenly wicked things of my nature (even today), He does fill it but some times I throw things in the way to block the flow but He is streaming live at all times.There I am done with it and hope I can move on to something else today, ha! May we be filled today, tomorrow and in all eternity. Thank you for your heart and for making us search our hearts..Have a great day!

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