We fight or we flee. Sometimes it’s one, and sometimes it’s the other. At times we can explain the choice that we made, and at other times we have no idea at all why we made whatever choice we made. We can stand tall and fight and be entirely uncertain why we’re doing that at all. Or we can be running away in a blind panic and not be certain why … [Read more...]
Pain to Paralysis – Coming Apart at the Seams
Pain is both a product and by-product of our life. Clearly, we’re no stranger to pain as we’ve met its variant forms on a variety of occasions, in a variety of situations, with a whole variety of responses to it. Pain becomes that entirely unwanted but all too common partner who refuses to leave us alone for too long, if it leaves us alone at … [Read more...]
Fill’er Up – It’s Never Lasting
Has it ever dawned on us that the resources that we are constantly about the business of obtaining always need to be replenished? Always. We are always in pursuit of whatever resources we need to meet even our most fundamental needs. Yet it seems that none of that ever lasts. There’s really nothing of permanence to anything. Everything is always … [Read more...]
Mining Memories – The Tools of Memories
Memories can either be annoying or painful recollections of times and events that we would much prefer to completely erase from the whiteboard of our memories. Or they might be brazenly intrusive, throwing their images across the forefront of our minds at the most inopportune of times. And in some more soothing cases they might be calming and … [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...]
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...]
Forgiveness – The Necessity and the Application
Magnificent Living – Taking Things for Granted
It seems that we have this distastefuland rather corroding tendency to take things for granted. It’s a sorry and perpetually debilitating reality that the more we have of something, the more we just assume that ‘it is.’ Things unfairly drop off of our radar simply because of the persistence of their existence in our lives. And in the oddity of … [Read more...]
Loving Our Enemies – Seeing Ourselves in Our Response
It may be that our actions say more about us than just about anything else that we do. Our actions decisively reveal many things about us that are otherwise hidden behind a thin façade of congeniality, the silken veil of social courtesies, and other appropriate behaviors that lend us an air of refinement and chivalry. Yet, we rarely look at our … [Read more...]
Loving Our Enemies – More Than a Nice Idea
Love your enemies. That’s a very tall order. In fact it can be such a tall order that we feel it to be out of our reach altogether. Not only is it a tall order, at times it seems irrational, excessively pacifistic, and a decision made by weak people too sheepish to stand up when they should stand up. Loving our enemies is tough indeed. Yet, … [Read more...]
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC