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
Magnificent Living – Taking Things for Granted
It seems that we have this distastefuland rather corroding tendency to take things for granted. It’s a sorry and perpetually debilitating reality that the more we have of something, the more we just assume that ‘it is.’ Things unfairly drop off of our radar simply because of the persistence of their existence in our lives. And in the oddity of … [Read more...]
Loving Our Enemies – Seeing Ourselves in Our Response
It may be that our actions say more about us than just about anything else that we do. Our actions decisively reveal many things about us that are otherwise hidden behind a thin façade of congeniality, the silken veil of social courtesies, and other appropriate behaviors that lend us an air of refinement and chivalry. Yet, we rarely look at our … [Read more...]
Loving Our Enemies – More Than a Nice Idea
Love your enemies. That’s a very tall order. In fact it can be such a tall order that we feel it to be out of our reach altogether. Not only is it a tall order, at times it seems irrational, excessively pacifistic, and a decision made by weak people too sheepish to stand up when they should stand up. Loving our enemies is tough indeed. Yet, … [Read more...]
Good as the Enemy of the Best
Love – What Is It ?
What is love? Some questions are those mystically timeless questions that leave us breathless in our pursuit of them. Once we’ve pursued such questions they become ever more compelling because they have withheld their answers from us. Such is this wondrous, yet vexing question about love. Yet, to wholly embrace this most wonderful yet … [Read more...]
Grief and Loss – A Different Perspective
When we experience grief and loss, all we see is grief and loss. Our hearts are smeared thick with searing grief and our eyes are rendered blind by a loss that we’re struggling to embrace as real. Our worlds teeter and our lives wrestle with the massive holes of things torn away. We wrestle with an existence now altered beyond hope of restoration … [Read more...]
Love – A World Without It
Most times we really don’t appreciate something until we don’t have it. We have this onerous proclivity to miss the value of things because we have them. In having things we begin to take them for granted because of their frequency and consistency in our lives. They ‘are’ just because they ‘are.’ And anything special or unique or valuable is often … [Read more...]
Happiness – Three Do’s and Three Don’ts
Happiness seems to be that infuriatingly elusive yet intensely desired thing that we're all chasing in some form or fashion. The apparent reason that we're in this rampant pursuit of happiness is that we don't have it very often, and when we do, we don't have it for all that long. This thing called happiness is elusive indeed. Maybe when it … [Read more...]
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC