Time for a return to Shallowness
I think it’s time we pay more attention to the shallowness of life. I’ve always prided myself on my attraction to the deeper things but am starting to wonder if that’s where true life is found or if that’s just a suit and tie we put on to make ourselves look better to those around us.
God ordains all things which causes me to consider that most of life is found in the mundane moments. Oswald Chambers got me thinking about this mostly ignored aspect of my life this morning. He said: “It is not your devotion to God that makes you refuse to be shallow, but your wish to impress other people.” He goes on to say: “Beware of posing as a profound person. God became a baby.”
The older I get the less attracted I am to big idea’s, great notions and people who try to convince me of anything. I hear it in church, party politics and in the paper every day. We, including myself, like to attach depth to our lives and would just as soon trade most of the shallowness for monumental moments.
I keep thinking God came to us as a child, not a superpower, to show us the way. He didn’t come as a king. God lived with us as a common man and partook of the shallowness and in that shallowness found life. So I have to ask myself why? I wonder that it’s not the shallowness of life that connects us to each other. On Face book, a blog like this will attract some who agree, some who don’t, some who want to fight over my ideas and beliefs and some who just want to argue. But if I were to ask you where to I find the best Pizza in town I’d get thousands of responses? Yesterday I would have thought that shows how shallow the world really is but today I’m wondering whether if the shallowness is not where real relationship is found.
Oswald closes with this and so will I: “Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever know, is yourself.”
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i think that in order to find those relationships, at least at the beginning, there is some shallowness that's involved. How else do you get to know someone? Life is a mix of moments that are momumental as well as shallow. The trick is to enjoy all of them
The closing statement….the greatest fraud you have ever known is yourself. I think rings truer than most of are willing to admit. that very thought has crossed my mind over the past month. however, as long as I am true as can be to God and myself, then my family, the more real I am. It is true, most of us are so concerned about what every one thinks about us. Truth be told, most people are not thinking about 'us', they are thinking about themselves. So God, is really the only one we need to impress.
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I think that exploring big ideas is great fun. My own view is that God put us on earth to explore being a spirit living a physical existence. So the key word is explore. Toy with. Mull over. Ponder. Savor the good ones. I see exploring big ideas as something I do with my own creativity as a hobby. Even when I blog I am not attached to others agreeing with me (although it's nice when they do!) We're all free agents in charge of minding our own mental diets. I like the deep end of the pool as well as the shallow end. Each has its own rewards.
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