Common sense is a common phrase that is in reality far from common. It seems that it should be common or we would want it to be common; after all when we apply common sense things commonly come out uncommonly good. The absence of common sense seems in large part to be related to the fact that we tack so much stuff on to it, or cut so much stuff … [Read more...]
What we Worship – The Things We Bow Down to
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...]
Running Empty
There will come a time when our resources will be completely inferior to the demands that pull at us. At some time we will experience a deficit of possibly tremendous proportions where we simply will not possess the resources to fend off whatever assails us or whatever demands payment of us. Where do we go when there’s no resources to go to? … [Read more...]
How Did I Get Here ?
Too often we are so inordinately consumed in the everyday tasks of everyday living that we don’t raise our heads up sufficiently to figure out where we are, and in the busyness of it all, where we’re going. In essence, we’re just going. The journey becomes defined by the need of the moment, not the goal of a lifetime. When circumstance or … [Read more...]
Hope – A Life Essential
At times we skirt the barren periphery of hopelessness. And having found ourselves at such precarious outliers, we begin to abandon a sense that we can somehow find our way back to anything that bears any imprint of hope. Such moments leaving us grieving the life we’re living because we see no rational for living it, for without hope all of life … [Read more...]
Disorientation – When You Can’t Find Your Compass
There comes those days when we finally look up after a long time of looking down, and once we do so, weren’t not at all certain where we’re at. We’ve walked a long ways, but we’ve done so having lost the long view along the way. We get caught in the incessantly pesky day-in and day-out drudgeries and the unremitting demands that constantly vie for … [Read more...]
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Each day is crammed with innumerable decisions. Some are relatively minor, simply allowing us to pass from moment to moment with little implications for most future moments. Others are monumental, representing major crossroads that will wholly impact our lives with a magnitude that will be felt for the rest of our lives. Yet is often seems that … [Read more...]
Dad’s Workbench – There’s a Tool for That
When the various challenges arise, or the obstacles both large and small throw themselves across our path, or we’re ascending new peaks, we tend to grab the closest thing available to us and rapidly bring it to bear on the challenge. We tend to be tersely reactionary rather than prudently thoughtful. We either jump into the fray or leap out of it … [Read more...]
Common Sense – Having Lost All Sense
The rather fascinating thing about common sense is that it too often seems to be anything but common. And yet its absence appears unrelated to its availability. It would seem that common sense is in reality common in the just the way its name would imply. If so, then it should be readily accessible and commonly available to those who wish to avail … [Read more...]
Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC