“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 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 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
“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
“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
“Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“My impatience is that utterly stealthy thief that robs me of some of life’s greatest moments by whispering that it’s ‘now or… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The shortest route between where I’m at and where I want to go is a straight line. However, if where I want… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I can confidently say that I’m not where I was yesterday. But if I don’t have a clear goal, where I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is no story (regardless of how dark it might be) that does not contain within its pages a handful of words… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that you will touch a life today. It's just the manner in which you choose to do so,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God will always want me more than I will want Him. And it seems quite reasonable to me that the greatest way… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I wish to write anything across the pages of your life that I do not wish to ascribe my name to,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I realize that I have been thrust into an existence so vast in both scope and complexity that I cannot hope to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The losses in my life are so immense that I can barely stand and hardly breath. But I must remember that it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the evidence of everything that I wish were not evidence points me to all of the things that I’ve spent my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“One man lives out his life beating his fears into submission, while another lives out his life letting his fears beat him… — 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
“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
“Leadership is simple. It’s laying down one’s life on behalf of another for no other reason than such an action represents what… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We force-fit our tiny rubrics over this immense existence of ours until we’ve confused the box we’ve created for the existence we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is much like a river. I can’t determine where the river comes from or where it’s flowing to. But I can… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what… — 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
“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
“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
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
