Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning."
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"Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied horrors of a cross and the wild exhilaration of an empty tomb. But at the point that I think I completely understand God, I have at that very point humanized Him and in that very action I have lost Him. Therefore, I much prefer to simply marvel."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"A god of the ‘possible’ is no God."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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