If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Channel Direct Fail Failures Inadequacies Inadequate Misappropriated Misdirected Wrong

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Denial Drown Out Fear Flee Ignore Justification Mediocrity Placate Rationalization Repress

One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Denial Face Face Of God Look Myself Refuse Refusing

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Blame Denial Justification Pay It Forward Rationalization

The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Accountability Accountable Frank Greedy Hear Honest Problem Self Centered Selfish Superificiality Truth

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Ammunition Gun Injury Injustice Sabotage Self Inflicted Self Inflicted Pain Self Injury Self Sabotage Unfair Unfairness Unjust Victim Victimization Wound Wounded Wounds

To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Abode Certainty Created God Protected Protection Refuge Safety Sanctuary Sand Security Solace Stability Tides Walls

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Beginning Beginnings Beginnings And Endings Dead End Dead Ends Death End Endings God Ending New Year New Years