I Crave…
We all have cravings, these deep seated desires and needs that must be fulfilled. We only need air, water and food to survive but we need love, community, hope, security, purpose, and value to truly live.
Erwin McManus, author of Soul Cravings has grouped these most fundamental human cravings into three areas, the need for intimacy, destiny, and meaning. What do you crave the most?
Intimacy
We all desire to be known and loved. No one wants to be alone. Belonging central to what it means to be human, so what happens when you’re all alone? Read more
Destiny
You were created with purpose. What makes us want to become more than we are right now? Read more
Meaning
The need for meaning is made up of significance, truth and trust and those three are closely entwined. How do you define meaning in your life? Read more
Do you identify with having “soul cravings”? Have you felt frustrated as you try to fill them with things that ultimately don’t satisfy? Feel free to contact us by email or comment below if you’d like to share your thoughts.
So Thomas, you see God as the one who meets those cravings we have in our life? What gives you that confidence?
I’m not doing anything about it. It’s always going to be there and why stop an inexcapable part of being human? I do think this though: all our ‘unknown’ thoughts, wishes and ultimate desires (so long as they’re not sinful) will be met with God in ways we cannot imagine. I’m sure the best possible state of mind and being will and can exist. Frustrating that we can’t identify them now but patience is a virtue…
That is hard Thomas, when you know you want something but can’t pinpoint what it is that you desire. How are you trying to figure out what it is that you crave?
I have no idea. I know I crave something and I know it’s the same thing I was ‘on to’ as a kid when I got a Darth Vader figure one Christmas after a long and exciting yuletide build up to it…it was the thing I most wanted, I was surrounded by family and it was the best season of all. Not THE thing but, like I said, it pointing somehow to it…
Also I have a meglomaniac urge but I try to ignore that, as a Ming the Merciless side to me MUST be sinful.
Wow Jean, 5 a.m. seems pretty early for building a buzz. :)
I crave alcohol at 5:00.
I crave equality, education, authenticity, freedom, opportunity, love, experience
Hi Kylee, The craving to be loved is one of the very deepest of all human desires. I can understand wanting to get back together with your ex, but I would caution you to reconsider. You said that he has mentioned getting back together several times, and you react very positively and then he changes his mind. I do not not know your ex-boyfriend and I don’t know why you broke up, but I do know this: when a man wants to date a woman, he talks to her and asks her out. If he doesn’t date her it means that either something or someone is in the way, or he simply does not want to date her. If your ex-boyfriend truly wanted to get back together you’d be in that relationship now. I wonder if he simply likes the power trip of knowing that he has your heart on a string and you’ll come running every time he calls?
Break-ups are brutal and it’s very tempting to think that if you could just get back together all the pain and hurt would go away. But it’s not that simple. You do not need him to be good enough, you are good enough all on your own. I do not know if you have a faith perspective or not, but I believe in God and God says that you are a person of worth and value, a woman of beauty and purpose. Your worth does not diminish even single drop just because a guy decides that he wants to end things. It may not feel like that is true, but it is. You are a whole person all on your own and this guy, no matter how amazing he might be, he is not the last man who is ever going to love you. He is not your only road to happiness.
I’d encourage you to spend some time focussing on taking care of yourself. Take a close look at how you talk about yourself, and how you describe yourself in your thoughts. Are you kind to you? Do you tell yourself that you matter or do you make yourself feel like a loser? You are NOT a loser. There’s a great list of all the things God says about you, you can read it here. Accept yourself. Any less than that and you’ll find yourself chasing after someone who is not chasing after you. You deserve to be truly loved by someone who always takes your call, someone who is always happy to see you. Don’t let someone else tell you who you are. He does not have that power. Let God tell you who you are. I think you’ll like what he has to say.
I crave love. I crave the feeling to be cared about (not by my family, but by a man). For some reason I crave the feeling to be accepted by my ex-boyfriend. He keeps saying he wants to get back together, and then changes his mind. Every time he mentions getting back together, I obsess over it. I crave to be accepted by the person who rejected me, just so I feel “good enough.” I want get this crave under control.
What kind of things would you change Kevin?
I crave powers to change the world something superman like
how do you think that would happen Brian? What would our world look like then?
I can’t wait for the monetary system of slavery to disappear back into the hell from which it came. Although a nessisairy evil at one point in our cultural developement. I belive it is no hindering our society.l we also as a society need to turn competition into cooperation and stop trying to hold others back our bring others down so we can feel good about ourselves.
I crave financial stability…that I dont have to struggle from paycheque to pay cheque!!!
i crave my real meaning of my life the next step in my life
I crave Braille and or large print labels affixed to prescriptions dispensed to blind or visually impaired persons.
I crave convex sidewalks that shed water when we have a Winter Thaw rather than the convex ones that act as a swail when the heavy rains come in Summer. Ice really scares people off walking.
I crave a world where we emprace the notion that joy and not money should be the apple of the politicians eyes.
I crave a world that respects the individual more than the “nation / state”.
I crave thoughtfulness.
I also crave a survey where I can give my true thoughts without them being lumped in with “Something to believe in”, or choosing something as trite as Money/Success, Friends/Partying, or Love/Sex.
I crave a true understanding of the world I live in. Not a fairy tale, not a story, but a real, tangible understanding through the power of science and reason. I crave friends who I can travel through this life with who understand and support me. I crave a significant other who can be there for me when I need her most, and who I can be there for as well. Someone to care for me, and someone I can care for.
These are all things that matter to me, and I know that I can attain them if I only work a little harder.
I crave real ness…. Hope and a reason for it all.
I crave no longer owing a mortgage.
I crave to see love and justice to the street dwellers in Africa, we as the church should have our brothers and sisters at heart through prayers,social and economic support…………………………………………..I crave hope to the hopeless.
I crave social justic; equality of all in the eyes of all.