Forgiveness – The Necessity and the Difficulty
Surviving to Thriving – Part I
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...]
Taking a Stand -To Be Bold
Fight or Flight – Our Contradictory Nature in Crisis
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...]
Fear – The Monster in the Closet
Fear is no stranger to any of us. In fact, it might be said that fear is one of the greatest killer of dreams and slayer of passions. Fear turns us away at the very moment we find ourselves standing on the brink of unimaginable success. It falsely declares that the possible is impossible. And it herds us into the suffocating corrals of … [Read more...]
Disorientation – When You Can’t Find Your Compass
There comes those days when we finally look up after a long time of looking down, and once we do so, weren’t not at all certain where we’re at. We’ve walked a long ways, but we’ve done so having lost the long view along the way. We get caught in the incessantly pesky day-in and day-out drudgeries and the unremitting demands that constantly vie for … [Read more...]
To Believe – I Want to Believe
Discouragement – Courage, Determination and Persistence
We need not define discouragement. We’ve all experienced it sufficiently to understand it in all of its many variant and rather dark forms. Discouragement has come our way, and it will come our way again. Sometimes it’s rather diminutive, passive and rather soft. At other times it’s monstrous and entirely debilitating. In whatever way it comes, it … [Read more...]
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC