“Mankind cannot manufacture hope. Rather, it creates an innumerable array of ingeniously crafted facsimiles that are quite captivating. And it is Christmas… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is no depth that exceeds the reach of the God who is, at this very moment, seeking you out in the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the absence of hope. Rather, it is the absence of our faith in hope.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Faith is acknowledging what I can’t see as a means of embracing that which I cannot afford to miss.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I might have my holes, but the healing of today means that they will be smaller in every tomorrow, including the one… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Peace as rumor and hope as the stuff of myth is the manifestation of the person who cannot see beyond the short… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When our lives are difficult beyond description, we must remember that our God is good beyond explanation.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Confidence is a word born of a deeply primal wish. And it is rendered a wish simply because it is rarely a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Bravery is to acknowledge that we are cowards who have committed ourselves to keeping our cowardice on a very short leash.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I would rather not know what light is, rather than have it and then lose it. For then the darkness that it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As for any of us in crisis, hope is the one thing that’s everything.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It takes but a handful of words to ambush my soul with hope. Yet, the vexing question in it all is why… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is my hope that I will live today in a way that every tomorrow will become a great yesterday.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I took a walk this morning. And as I did, I wished that an awakening world would see opportunities in this day… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We must always remember that the darkness might hide everything, but it eliminates nothing.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Evil will never find a place where the manifestation of itself will not raise up a greater good. And to be that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The soft scent of freshly fallen leaves tenderly permeated a forest ignited to a flaming brilliance with sizzling reds, burning oranges, and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“She’s gone,” I say over and over. And with her went the dreams that made my life worth the living. Yet, God… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Do not mistakenly define ‘impossible’ as that which is merely difficult. For that creates the sickening illusion that such an incredible and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply… — 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
