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“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.”

Direct Wrong Fail Inadequate Failures Misdirected Channel Inadequacies Misappropriated

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.”

God Desire Jesus Freedom Jesus Christ Longing Selfish Christmas Selfishness Rebellion Futility Discover Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.”

Reality Truth Lying Honest Honesty Lies Confusion Anarchy Relative Absolute Cousin Fact Misdirection Disorientation Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.”

“At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.”

Life Death Imagination Imagine Journey Disappointment Disappointed Mislead Avoidance Misled Avoid Misdirected Imagining Manipulated Duped

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Misplaced passion and misguided dreams are the stuff that nightmares are made of.”

Wisdom Passion Lost Dreams Foolish Confused Nightmares Misguided Misplaced Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hard work on the wrong task is the fool’s errand on overdrive.”

Foolish Wrong Misguided Task Incorrect Misdirected Overdrive Fools Errand

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.”

Reality Focus Optimism Disappointment Pessimism Discouraged Disappoint Discouragement Forsake Forsaken Bypass Misinterpreted Missed Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.”

Life Treasure Genuine Gift Deception Mistaken Deceived Gifts Fooled Authentic Misguided Hidden Treasures Misdirected Disciplined Scraps

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Answers Ignorance Pride Solutions Selfish Ignorant Cures Alone Arrogance Arrogant Misguided Self Absorbed Assume Prideful Misdirected Misinformed

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.”

“We tediously parse the verb all the while ignoring the action demanded of us by the verb.”

Action Foolish Distracted Misled Misdirected Verb

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.”

“It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.”

Lost Stupid Fool Goals Foolish Ignorant Objectives Wander Denial Fooled Wandering Ascending Misdirected Ascend Ditch Toddling

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.”

“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poor’ to be able to ‘pour’ back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.”

Heart Soul God Christian Faith Passion Jesus Poor Christianity Dreams Jesus Christ Empty Goals Emptiness Mislead Hopes Misled Vacant Passions Misdirected Pour Misdirect

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost.”

Lost Obvious Wander Confused Deceived Fact Wandering Misdirected Disoriented Duped

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.”

Life Wisdom Purpose Lost Goal Focus Wise Journey Fool Calling Foolish Meaning Impulse Destination Mission Moment Life Journey Proactive Impulsive Role Dictating Misdirected Reactive

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”

Freedom Liberty Rights Cancer Selfish Selfishness Assumption Self Centered Entitlement Misguided Assume Privileges Misdirected Owed Abuses Abuses Of Freedom

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.”

Lost Goal Journey Stupid Ignorance Fool Goals Foolish Ignorant Wander Destination Foolishness Compass Direction Misled Wandering Map Misdirected Calibration

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Will it take the death of me to finally learn that the things that I describe as success may very well be the death of me?”

Wisdom Success Death Stupidity Idiot Foolishness Self Destruction Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To incessantly define ‘where we’re at’ as a means of convincing ourselves that we know ‘where we’re at’ suggests that we’re lost about being lost. And while the wilderness of life is teeming with these kinds of people, I have to make certain that I never enter the woods.”

Life Wisdom Lost Foolish Confused Wilderness Deceived Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When we stop pursuing God`s purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.”

Talent Gifts Misdirected Pursuing God S Purpose

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.”

God Hands Success Work Successful Accomplishments Misguided Achievements Misdirected Misinformed God S Hands Feverish Feverishly

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.”

Success Successful Achieve Achievement Defeat Goals Objectives Defeated Mistaken Misguided Aspirations Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If anyone tells me that they’ve created the formula for living, what they’re really telling me is that they’re a fraud who’s deceived by their own fraudulence. And I can’t argue the fact that that’s a formula. But it’s a formula to keep me from finding the formula.”

God Christian Jesus Deception Fraud Misdirected Formula Fradulent

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough