Craig D. Lounsbrough

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

A __ood_ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a __ood_ father who is also a __rave_ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.

Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice?

We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we__e lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it__ adhering to our scripts or not.

It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.

Disappointment focuses on __hat is not,_ and completely misses the far greater reality of __hat now is.

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we__e actually lived in the first place?

I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can__. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.

No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I__e been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.

If truth is relative, then it__ cousin is anarchy.

We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.

To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?