Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then.

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it's less about joining a race and more about actually creating one.

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

The road from 'here' to 'there' is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and a stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future was the past was not.

The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.

We are about the hurried business of living life while missing it in the very process of living it.

Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

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.

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.

Jesus came to give us life without leaving out any of life in the giving.

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story.

We can only climb the mountains because there's a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.

It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.

Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.

There's not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my 'timetable' is too often a 'table' with two legs that won't stand up no matter how much 'time' I give it.

If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.

Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that's the case, we should get busy returning them.