We seem to prefer superficial realities; those kinds of tidying behaviors that keep things amply clean and sufficiently arranged. It’s often more about presentation than substance. We tend to spit-shine the thin veneers and bring them to a lustrous polish so that whatever’s underneath them is assumed to be just as lustrous. Yet, we all need a … [Read more...]
Seasons – The Come and Go of Life
In the come and go of life we’re more apt to embrace what’s coming than to release what’s going. There is something in the accumulation of things that enhances our sense of security and stability as we ever further immerse ourselves in the soothing wrap of them. Conversely, releasing things sometimes has a stripping sensation where we’re becoming … [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...]
Christmas – What Is Christmas
Christmas – We Forget
Christmas – A Sorely Needed Reclamation
A New Life
Christmas – The Nature of God
We humanize God. It’s in our nature to create and craft a god who is more of us and less of anything divine. We have this terribly odd proclivity to need a god, but to concurrently need that god to be something that we can control. We want a deity that has enough supernatural qualities to rush into our lives in times of crisis, or handily answer … [Read more...]
Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC