GOD SHAPED HOLE

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You write out of that emptiness. You write out of that hole, that void. You're filling the void. For me, you know, it probably came out of loss... they call it the God-shaped hole, don't they? June 25, 2013 – Interview with Jim Daly (Focus on the Family)                                         

Everyone's got one. Some are blacker and wider than others. It goes right back to the blues, it's what first makes you want to shout at God, when you've been abandoned or someone's been taken away from you. And I don't think you ever fill it, not completely. You can fill it up with time, by living a full life, but if you're silent enough, you can still hear the hissing. 2003 ー U2: The Best of Propaganda ー Ian Gittins

I look forward to meeting [my mother] again. But the loss of that is significant for me. I filled it with music and it deepened my faith, I suppose. June 25, 2013 – Interview with Jim Daly (Focus on the Family) 

I became an artist through the portal of grief. My mother died at her own father’s grave site ー as he was being lowered into the ground, she had an aneurism. I was 14. She left me. But she left me an artist. I began the journey, trying to fill the whole in my heart ー with music, with my mates, my band mates. Finally the only thing that can fill it is God’s love. And it’s a big hole, but luckily it’s a big love. April 26, 2017 – Interview with W. David O. Taylor (Fuller Studio)

See Themes
Broken Heart
Despair
God Shaped Hole