Sinkholes and Hallowed Grounds

If you could follow my weaving thoughts for a day you'd see a lot of this; one thing leaping to another and finding connections. Sometimes finding a conclusion before following out the thought, only to have to back-track and see how it was reached. Anyway, thanks for reading my random ramblings.
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A sinkhole can be caused by lots of things as it is only a cavity or void underneath what looks like regular ground. It could be under a road, under a house, or it could be under open field. The topic hops into my tiny brain because outside of the building I work in there are two sinkholes. One in the road between the buildings and one a few hundred feet away at a sewer grate. They showed up because the groundwater levels are so very low right now. The river, only a hundred feet away, is low enough that you could walk across it and not get your knees wet. Since the ground is always holding a certain amount of water in it a lot of empty spots between the grains of dirt and rocks appeared when the drought hit. With no water to fill the gaps the air came in and the grains of dirt settled down further under the weight of cars and houses. This left significant holes under the blacktop, or at least that is the only noticeable event this past summer that might activate the sinkholes.

Image: Basic function of sinkholes

Now in church this Sunday we talked about Halloween which has many pagan customs and a few Christian ones. Halloween used to be called all hallows eve (precursor to all saints day), but was reduced to Halloween in stages. The term hallowed came back to me today while walking to the car and then connections started appearing. "Hallowed sounds like hollow", I thought as I looked over at the sinkhole. I then thought about what a sinkhole is, a void under the surface. Then it came together; "People have voids under the surface". Voids even they are unaware of. Voids they are in danger of becoming lost to.

So then the term hallowed came back, leading me to think of the God shaped hole in all of us. The thing most people try to fill with something other than what was intended. How everything can seem fine on the surface and then, seemingly suddenly, their footing gives way. Their once firm foundation now fallen, leaving them with a sense of helplessness, weakness, and surprise. If only they filled the holes with the God that fits...