Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The call of fatherhood is in fact a call of sacrifice, not in some heroic sense where a father is lifted high on some glowing pedestal with all of his sacrifices held up to the awe of those around him. Rather, it is a call that will cost him all that he has, that will be absent of accolades, where rewards will be sparse, and where he will someday find himself having spent all, but in the spending have gained everything. And this is the glory of fatherhood."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The words that we say last but a moment, yet the impact of those words knows no moment."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"It wasn’t the sunrise that took my breath away. Rather, it was the privilege of knowing that forces a billion times my own strength silently merged in the first light of a new day to remind me that I am part of something infinitely bigger than all of the combined challenges of any day."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He’s had enough."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"If I missed the sunrise of this day and if I let the sunset slip by unnoticed, I might ask if what captured my attention this day was worth the loss of this day because I can't think of anything that's that important."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

""Don't pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.""

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The morning is the most important part of the day. It sets the tone and the tempo for the whole day."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Tomorrow is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. Today is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"An end is only a beginning in disguise."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

""Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.""

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Your new start is only as far away as your fear has parked it."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"A father is the man who can change a world he will not be part of by building the tiny human that is part of him."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"It’s not about being good. It’s about releasing good."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

""Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.""

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?"

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"To be a light on a hill we must be a people on our knees."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough