Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes
A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention.
Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.
Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.
Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.
Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have “forever” repercussions.
We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.
Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.
If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.
To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.
Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.
Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.
We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.
A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.
Too often my solution is to let something die because I can’t keep it alive, when God’s solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it.
We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.
We myopically stare at the gaping hole left in our lives and see nothing but the hole, not realizing a hole is defined by everything around it that is not a hole.
At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.
If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.
The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.
I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.
To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.
Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.
The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.
To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.
It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.
I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.
The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.
Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.
Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.
A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.
It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single “David” standing with God, than a million “Goliath’s” standing without Him.
Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.
God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.
To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.
I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.
The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God.
I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image.
Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.
Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.
Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.
We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it.
At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.
