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“More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.”

Problem Wisdom Choices Situation Stupid Stupidity Holes Familiar Choice Repetition Familiarity Sabotage Self Sabotage Hole Dig Pit Dug

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards.”

Heart Soul Choices Attitude Impact Decisions Backwards Life Choices State Head Condition Sway Gateway Life Style Choices Porthole

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.”

God Choices Enemy Fool Foolish Decisions Acknowledge Friend Discernment Best Friend Sabotage Self Destructive Confess Admit

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.”

Love Life Choices Decision Risk Decisions Tragic Lover Loving Refusal Diminishment Unacceptable Refused Risk Taker Risking Diminished Tragically

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.”

Wisdom Choices Results Consequence Accepted Choice Rejected Consequences Invitations Discernment Result Outcome Choosing Natural Consequences Invite Fallout

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.”

Choices Plans Consequence Planning Decisions Outcomes Choice Consequences Road Repercussions Result Map Route Repercussion Pave Paved Mapped

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.”

Choices Fool Consequence Strategy Foolish Planning Consequences Plan Erase Avoidance Script Strategist Avoid Eliminate Foolishly

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.”

Past Choices Dreams Building Transformation Goals Mess New Year Present Exceptional Elimination Rebuilding

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors.”

Moving Choices Vision Path Progress Journey Feet Destination Momentum Road

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“It would be advisable to realize that we will eventually become whatever it is that we’ve created. And too often what we’ve created is a massive mess.”

Life Life Lessons Choices Consequences Choices And Consequences

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.”

Life Choices Living Living Life Choices And Consequences

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other things that aren’t all that savory.”

Choices Decisions Consequences Regrets Regretting

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Depression Stupidity Foolish Decisions Problems Discernment

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The consequence of thinking that we can avoid a consequence is something akin to believing that jumping off a cliff only involves the jumping.”

Wisdom Choices Stupidity Foolishness Consequences Thoughtless Visionless

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we crash and burn, there’s a good chance that we were driving a car that we shouldn’t have been in, on a road that we shouldn’t have been on.”

Wisdom Choices Car Foolish Mistakes Crash Consequences Road Repercussions Crash And Burn

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The depth of the hole might be determined by the foolishness of my choices, but the foolishness of my choices never determines the length of God’s arm.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Mistakes Redemption Consequences Hole

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My greatest hope regarding the future rests on the mistakes I’ve made in the past, for those are the most effective things I’ve got to build with.”

Past Choices Future Mistakes New Year Learning Opportunities

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.”

“Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.”

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.”

Wisdom Choices Opportunity Errors Mistakes Decisions Direction Decide Pitfalls Rethink Shovel Dug Reconsider

Book:Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“It’s not out of the heart that people do damaging things. Rather, it’s out of the wounds of the heart.”

People Heart Pain Choices Hurt Behavior Wounds Damage Actions Wounded

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Genius is not to create reality. Rather, genius is to discover it and then be brave enough to join it.”

Life Reality Truth Choices Trust Genius Bravery

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Before you ‘grab a bull by the horns’ you might wish to remember that horns were designed for something other than grabbing and that the fifteen-hundred pounds on the other side of those horns would be more than happy to show you what that is.”

Wisdom Reality Choices Challenges Wise Decisions Thoughtful Bull By The Horns

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Not having a script for your life is having the worst kind of script for your life.”

Wisdom Choices Plans Goals Mediocrity Apathy Foolishness Direction Script

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ won't be anywhere near my solar system.”

World God Christian Pain Choices Hurt Christianity Decisions Guidance Consequences Heed Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And so I stand in this bitter darkness, holding the map that I drew from the compass I created. And with a map and compass such as these, have I not arrived at the correct destination?”

Choices Darkness Path Outcomes Destination Consequences Compass Plan Map

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough