“ The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ 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
“ I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of e… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in t… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving? Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood. Craig D. Lounsbrough
