Too often we are part of the proverbial herd. We simply plod along with all the other people who are plodding along because everyone else is plodding along. The herd is kept together through some false sense that there must be a mutually agreed upon destination that is compelling enough for everyone to join forces in a mass march toward that … [Read more...]
Left Lane Living – Driving at the Speed of Life
Life is a road. And in navigating that road, more often than not we’re in the sluggish right lane of life. In the right lane we’re doing little more than pacing ourselves based on the person in front of us who’s pacing themselves based on the person in front of them, and so on. And it is here that our lives become less about some electrifying … [Read more...]
Killing the Sacred – Bludgeoning the Heart Out of Life
It seems that we don’t see anything as sacred anymore. It seems that life has been stripped of the scared and diminished in the stripping. There are very few things that we hold in such high regard that we stand enthralled by just the thought of them. Not much captures our imaginations or takes our breath away. Very seldom do we stand mesmerized … [Read more...]
Kid’s – What’s the Deal ?
If we want a ready definition of insanity, it seems that we only have to look at adolescents. There’s something about this innately difficult life transition that’s peppered with an invasive dose of insanity and some unidentifiable degree of irrationality. And because this appears to be the case, we often stand back in fear questioning if they’ll … [Read more...]
Independence – It’s Truest Form
What is independence? What is it? Not some pathetically amended definition that we’ve concoctedover the years through our cultural revisionism or politically correct notions. Not an agenda-driven definition skewed by a narcissistic sense of entitlement, or shaped by the slanted idea that independence is a right verses a privilege. Not some … [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...]
Historical Revisionist – Our Fear of Truth
We rather like the truth if it serves our purpose and supports our agendas. However, if the truth does neither of these, we find ourselves a bit annoyed, somewhat exasperated, and often determining how we can bend the truth sufficiently to make it less intrusive and far less problematic. And that often involves a bit of creative revisionism. The … [Read more...]
Have We Forgotten – Lulled to Sleep
Much of our life is sleepwalking. We simply go through the motions without any real thought that all we’re doing is going through the motions. We pre-program our lives to a methodical cadence that pounds out a mesmerizing rhythm to which we march. And as our lives pound out this incessantly tinny and empty cadence, we find ourselves on a circular … [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