We find the dark rather compelling. It’s one of those terribly tantalizing things that we like to reach out and touch just long enough to see what it’s like. Then whether its guilt, or a conscience pricked, or fear over what we just walked into, we jump back and ponder what we’ve just done. And too often the pondering teases us just enough to … [Read more...]
Discouragement – Courage, Determination and Persistence
We need not define discouragement. We’ve all experienced it sufficiently to understand it in all of its many variant and rather dark forms. Discouragement has come our way, and it will come our way again. Sometimes it’s rather diminutive, passive and rather soft. At other times it’s monstrous and entirely debilitating. In whatever way it comes, it … [Read more...]
Perfection – The Elusive Search
It is interesting that the pursuit of perfection, which so many of us are embroiled in, is in reality an impossible goal. And it is odd that we would put so much thought and energy into a goal that in reality we will never achieve. It would follow then that if we are intent upon such an impossible goal, something of great need must be driving … [Read more...]
Fight or Flee – Our Contradictory Nature in Crisis
We fight or we flee. Sometimes it’s one, and sometimes it’s the other. At times we can explain the choice that we made, and at other times we have no idea at all why we made whatever choice we made. We can stand tall and fight and be entirely uncertain why we’re doing that at all. Or we can be running away in a blind panic and not be certain why … [Read more...]
Pain to Paralysis – Coming Apart at the Seams
Pain is both a product and by-product of our life. Clearly, we’re no stranger to pain as we’ve met its variant forms on a variety of occasions, in a variety of situations, with a whole variety of responses to it. Pain becomes that entirely unwanted but all too common partner who refuses to leave us alone for too long, if it leaves us alone at … [Read more...]
Fill’er Up – It’s Never Lasting
Has it ever dawned on us that the resources that we are constantly about the business of obtaining always need to be replenished? Always. We are always in pursuit of whatever resources we need to meet even our most fundamental needs. Yet it seems that none of that ever lasts. There’s really nothing of permanence to anything. Everything is always … [Read more...]
Mining Memories – The Tools of Memories
Memories can either be annoying or painful recollections of times and events that we would much prefer to completely erase from the whiteboard of our memories. Or they might be brazenly intrusive, throwing their images across the forefront of our minds at the most inopportune of times. And in some more soothing cases they might be calming and … [Read more...]
Memorials – How We Mark Our Lives
Our lives are littered with a startling array of memorials. It seems that we have the need to lay down markers at various junctures of our lives in order to memorialize those chosen junctures. We are a people of history; of times and places that at times and in places need to be marked as having something of robust significance. Yet, we … [Read more...]
Mediocrity – The Waste of Fear and Absent Vision
Mediocrity is comfortable. It demands nothing of us other than the extinguishing of our passion and the holistic sacrifice of our dreams. Despite its colossally elevated cost, many of us embrace mediocrity and live our lives out in its forever wasteland. It may be that the greatest impetus of mediocrity is fear. We fear we will fail. We fear … [Read more...]
Forgiveness – The Necessity and the Application
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC