“Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I only own something because someone somewhere sacrificed in order to create the situation where I have the opportunity to own it.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Being thankful for something instantly grants that thing a depth it would not have had were I not thankful for it. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Everything that I have becomes invisible in my search for everything that I don’t have. And when that happens, what I don’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is far too trite to simply say that we should be ‘thankful,’ for that renders thankfulness as some sort of socially… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I laid in the grass one day instead of walking through my day. And what I found was that laying in the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is an invincible fortress that greed, gluttony and all of the other self-centered forces relentlessly assail with great force. Yet this… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“By far, the most precious gifts are those that I have, for without those I will never be able to obtain those… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I’m a slave to thankfulness I will never to be a slave to that which I’m thankful for. And the fact… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
