“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my… — 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
“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If the journey I am on is of my terribly tedious design, dead ends will likely be my lot. If the journey… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My life is diminished for the absence of great things. Yet they are in reality not absent at all. Rather I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If truth be told, life is so remarkably rich that we will always owe life a debt that we have no means… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite how painful it might have been, the chapter that we wrote today is never the conclusion that we are forced to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In making the life of another better, you will have done the same for yourself in ways that are frequently hidden by… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Even if you were were given the privilege to live twice, you would never repeat the same day twice. And if you… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God will never allow a flood in your life without providing you a boat within which the storm itself is repelled, the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To fight for greater things is the essence of our humanity. Therefore, to fall to the skepticism of those for whom the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Here’s the way to destroy your life in sixty seconds or less; convince yourself that something is ‘right’ simply because you want… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What I see behind me is what I’m going to create in front of me. Therefore, I might want to take a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In life, the greater the principle, the less people there are who will follow it. The higher the calling, the fewer the… — 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
“The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The kind of new beginnings that transform our lives are less about what we do in our lives, and more about what… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to say that I believe in God. Rather, I want to live out my life like I believe in… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A puzzle with all of the difficult pieces discarded is not about the loss of the puzzle. Much like life, it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The sheet of life's music runs in front of us in endless reams, but without the ears that God grants us they… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the ‘hand… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My insecurities demand that I put you in a box that you were not created for so that I might live the… — 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 don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“One of mankind’s greatest ironies is the inbred passion to seize great things, while simultaneously walking through life blithely tossing great things… — 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
