Discouragement – Being Dense to Discouragement
Sometimes life is simply about fighting the battle. We succumb not to the battle, but to the sense that life is nothing but a battle. Too often we choose to contemplate the battle, analyze the battle, and become engrossed in all the many and varied aspects of the battle. And we become lost in this incessant process of contemplation when maybe we … [Read more...]
Did You Ever Wonder Why ?
We take things for granted. All of the time. We move into a pitifully habitual pattern where things are just the way they are because it’s the way they are. And because they are, we become anaesthetized to curiosity and dull to the very questions we should in reality be asking. Such a circular and deadening mentality is wisdom ignored and acumen … [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...]
Consequences – Trying to Side-Step the Inevitable
Issac Newton said, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If only that weren’t so. Too many times we formulate plans that we simply love. What we don’t necessarily love are the consequences that come along with those plans. Sometimes those consequences can be real spoilers, so we do everything we can do to avoid them, deny … [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