Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?"
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"If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Doing life without God is not doing life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entirely undaunted in its ability to handily penetrate and completely subjugate the very world that I doubt its ability to survive in?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous. I can however sufficiently inhibit them and amply fight them to the point that I have accepted the journey, but the journey is now solely defined as my effort to forsake the journey."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"No, I am not powerful nor do I wish to be, for it is God using my weakness that makes me potent and I would never wish to surrender that."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"My sin murdered Him. And out of this self-loathing shame borne of the understanding that I could perpetrate such a heinous act, I am barely able to raise my head sufficiently to ask what crazed insanity would prompt Jesus to walk out of an empty tomb for the single purpose of pursuing a decaying soul that murdered Him? And I would be wise to consider that the question itself is asked only because I have yet to touch the barest periphery of God’s love despite the fact that because of an empty tomb it stands right in front of me."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ‘what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I’d be if I’d have gone forward in the first place."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
"Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
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