“When we walk with God, we can know that pain is always on the short leash of love.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Prayer is anything but the misled human being attempting self-sooth themselves against the pain that engulfs them. Rather, they are the people… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I might ignorantly press someone to pick up the pace and run, when given the nature of their circumstances walking is running.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Although the magnitude of my pain would scream otherwise, I cannot be so remiss as not to realize that my wounds are… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Filling a hole in a manner that doesn’t address how it was dug is to fill a hole that is certain to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Our roads are most often a tawdry detour we have chosen because the press of pain or the push of greed drove… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of… — 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
“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
“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 only way to achieve a dream worth dreaming is to accept the reality that each victory that we experience along the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to… — 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
“There is a purpose in our pain that is greater than the pain itself. Therefore, to miss that purpose is the truest… — 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
“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
“I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is the storm that I watch so that it will not catch me unawares, when I should be watching God in… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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
“Devastation is in fact the raw material from which the best journeys are forged and the richest roads are paved.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Cruel’ or a ‘tool’? For if we see pain as an adversary, we will see nothing but the former and we will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To heal the pain of another is to heal my own pain. Yet, some of the greatest pain that I can experience… — 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
