dig a little deeper

So I have been consistently inconsistent with this blog. I'm sorry to all of you who like consistency... I'm trying to do better.
   I have started to notice something about people the more I get to know them from many different walks of life. We crave the deeper things of this life. It is easy for us to get caught up with the everyday things that can distract us, but when we get down to it we really want to be around things and people that make us think, that spur us on to be better people.
   I saw that this weekend. A group of us went to the congregation I attend in Lubbock for their second annual youth lectureships. I don't really know how to describe it. It's simple, but seems like it shouldn't be as effective according to what society says. There are lessons and singing and a lot of fellowship. According to everything we seem to hear today, these high school aged people should have been bored out of their minds, and yet all I heard the whole time was that they really enjoyed it.
   It's an encouragement in a lot of ways. It is also a reminder not to underestimate people, to set the bar high for what we expect in people. I know that there are exceptions to this, but it seems like all the opportunities I have had to talk to people about deeper things, the more we leave each other's company feeling more fulfilled and better about life than when we just talk about the things that don't matter as much. haha don't get me wrong. Some of those little things are what we need to build relationships so that those deeper conversations have greater meaning. At the same time, it is easier many times to talk about those little things and leave those of a spiritual nature left unsaid, but the spiritual is what truly matters, and what seems to fulfill what we all at times seem to be craving. Meaning. More specifically meaning through living life for God.

"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. 'For in Him we live and move and have our being.'..."
Acts 17:24-28a (NIV)