Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'.

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we've engaged in 'right' living, verses believing that living is a 'right.

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life's gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.

I don't necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don't wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

If safety is my goal, living life is not.

If we're missing life it's probably because we're expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.

The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we've created.

We can fill our lives with 'stuff, ' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff.

We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives.

It may be that we're not seeing the wonder in life because all we're doing is wondering how we're going to survive life.

To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.

Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right.

We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.

To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.

To assume that I can even begin to chart a 'straight' path is probably the best way I can take myself 'straight' to the very place I don't want to go.

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 in indelible ink.

It would be advisable to realize that we will eventually become whatever it is that we've created. And too often what we've created is a massive mess.