“ The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of mys… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running? Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that lin… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we haven’t been able to create any distance betwe… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doin… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wo… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives. Craig D. Lounsbrough
