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Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.

attention, engage, identity, identity-crisis, interact, invest, investment, priorities, priority, reflection, self-identity, self-image, touch

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.

god, identity, kneeling, made, made-of, personhood, self-analysis, self-discovery, stand, standing, submission, transparency, vulnerability, vulnerable

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.

chance, created, creation, design, evolution, god, happenstance, intelligent-design, intent, myself, purpose, universe

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.

adjust, distortions, god, justifications, justify, lies, modify, rationalize, tampering, truth, truthfulness

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

agenda, distortion, egocentrism, egoism, fact, lies, negotiate-compromise, selfish, truth

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.

defend, defense, distortions, eternal, ethics, fabrication, fact, firm, honest, independent, lies, morals, principle, standard, truth, unwavering, values

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

discerning, ethics, fall, fool, foolish, ignorance, ignorant, impulsive, judgement, morals, stupidity, whimsy, wisdom, wise

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

acumen, assume, assumptions, aware, awareness, decay, discerning, discernment, foolishness, ignorance, ignore, stupidity, vigilance, wisdom, wise

Craig D. Lounsbrough

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

alone, answers, arrogance, arrogant, assume, cures, ignorance, ignorant, misdirected, misguided, misinformed, pride, prideful, self-absorbed, selfish, solutions

Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.

appreciate, appreciation, buried, bury, careless, cemetery, entitled, entitlement, foolish, granted, grave, ignorance, kill, killed, rights, selfish, terminate, terminated, value

Craig D. Lounsbrough

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

categorize, describe, description, explain, explanation, ignorance, ignorant, label, labels, minimize, phrase, reduce, reduction, self-description, stupid, stupidity, universe

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the changing the fact that we’re all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the first place.