the shallow and profound

Besides over-sized handbags, side-swiped bangs and macbooks, the current trend of world seems to be heading down the path of searching for the significant and profound. Most of the people I know are in somewhat of a soul-searching, significance-seeking aspect of life where we long to be wiser, deeper individuals. It seems at times there are things that are too insignificant to do, especially when seeking employment. "I don't want to a be a bag-boy for the rest of my life..." or, "what good is waiting tables? I want to do something profound..I want to go "out into the world," and change the world..."

Yesterday afternoon I was reading what Oswald Chamebers had to say about the "significance" and "profound" we're searching for. Based on 1 Corinthians 10:31- "Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God".Yes, yes..I know- you've heard this verse before; however, this verse got me thinking.

Chambers says "We humans refuse to be shallow, not out of our deep devotion to God but because we wish to impress other people with the fact that we are not shallow."
Oh, how true- how, very true. As a 22 year old, single, female (no, this isn't a personal ad) there seems to be somewhat of an outside pressure to be "more" than who and what I am. Change this. Change that. Fix this. Fix that- so many pressures not to be the typical barbie-doll, mindless female who is interested in nothing more than Paris Hilton's latest fragrance and Britney's latest hair-style (or, lack thereof). I do admit that one of my lifetime goals is to avoid a shallow lifestyle. Avoiding shallow people, shallow books, shallow movies, shallow conversation, shallow, meaningless jobs..etc- avoiding everything and anything that doesn't seem to add some sort of weighty significance to my life; but, why? Why am I (and maybe you, too?) why are we so worried with becoming so "profound"?

Chambers continues on to say:
"Beware of posing as a profound person- God became a baby.
The ocean has a shore. Even the shallow things in life are ordained by God-
Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God. We are so nauseatingly serious, so desperately interested in our own character and reputation, we refuse to behave like Chrsitians in the shallow concerns of life. Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself"

If we are to do whatever we do all to the glory of God- this too, includes the shallow.

hmmmmmmmm....