We have long left slavery to the faded tin-type photos that tell the story of a Civil War long ended. We know that slavery exists in our world today, but it seems to remain some left-over piece or part of a history long over. Yet we are all enslaved by something. We might not want to admit it, but we walked chained and shackled by something. And … [Read more...]
The Untimely – When it all Happens When it Shouldn’t
Sure things happen in life. It’s just the nature of this thing that we call life. We will have our trials, our challenges, our mountains, and our obstacles. Life will come at us in its variant forms as part of how things flow or sometimes don’t flow. Things happen and we fully expect that it will. But then there are those times when life strikes … [Read more...]
The New Year – Clean Slate or Simply Stale
The New Year – Changing Ourselves to Change Our World
It’s just too big, or so we assume. Or conversely, we’re just too small. In embracing either of these deceptive thoughts we wholly negate our ability to be game-changers in a world that sorely needs some serious game-changing. We need not be relegated to the side-lines of irrelevancy. We are here for a purpose. We do bring unique gifts, talents … [Read more...]
The Bottom Line – What Drives Our Decisions
The Battle – I’d Rather be David
Summer – Stars and Meadows
We live in boxes. Tight, well-defined and thick boxes. And in time the whole of our existence becomes defined by the singular boxes that we live in. Because it becomes increasingly difficult to see what’s outside of the boxes within which we live, we lose a sense of what’s outside the box. And in time, we forget that there is anything out there at … [Read more...]
A New Start
Abandonment
Success – Defining it Defines You
We all yearn to be successful. It may be that a feeling of success gives our life a sense of meaning, purpose, value and ultimately direction. Success means that our lives count for something more than simply being carbon-based life forms living out some pathetic existence on our way to the grave. But to know if we’re successful we have to have … [Read more...]
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC