Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough

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Life Talk with Craig Lounsbrough

Life Talk is a podcast intentionally designed to enrich your life, deepen your marriage, enhance your parenting, maximize your work life, and dramatically embolden this journey that we call life.

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    ”Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part Four

    "Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part Four Did you ever have one of those surreal moments when it seems like something snaps in your head and suddenly you see everything like you never saw it before?  Have you experienced those times when things unexplainably shift and they don’t look at all the same as they did only a moment ago?  When what was entirely familiar is no longer familiar in quite the way that it was before? A lot of things can trigger these moments . . . an argument, a child leaving the home, a death, a job loss, a divorce, a birthday, unexpected contact from a long-lost friend or any number of similar events.  In the middle of whatever this is, you’re suddenly able to see the reality of your life with a stunning, nearly razor-sharp clarity that you’ve never had before.  It’s kind of like you were blind and you didn’t know it and in the briefest nanosecond, for the briefest nanosecond you were granted stunningly perfect vision.  And with that perfect vision, everything looks perfectly different.  Suddenly, what we now see is familiar but strangely unfamiliar at the same time.  We intimately know everything that we see around us but it’s entirely alien just the same.  It looks different or not quite right.  It’s my life but it’s not my life, or at least what I wanted my life to be.  It’s what I’ve been living all along, but at the same time it’s not what I’ve been living, or what I thought I was living. And we stand there rubbing our eyes because what we see is not stuff we saw before, or at least what we saw with the clarity that we see it now.  In the emotional turmoil these rare moments create we’re often left asking “who am I and where am I?”  And in the briefest nanosecond, in exactly the same way it came, this vision is gone.  However, the memory of what those few incredible moments revealed is anything but gone. What times like this most often reveal is the paralyzing reality that we are not where we intended to be.  This was not the destination that we had mapped out as pimply-faced teens or adventurous young adults or giddy newlyweds.  The line that we had drawn from those younger years forward in time didn’t go where we’re at now, or weren’t supposed to go here; to this place that we now realize we are.  We never really considered the heading on our compass.  And now we pick it up, shake it to make certain it’s actually working and we’re left realizing that it’s working perfectly but we didn’t follow it.  And now we stand at some point far removed from, and possibly decades away from where we were supposed to be, or thought we were supposed to be. What hits us really hard is that we didn’t fully realize the deviation from the path that our dreams had laid out so long ago.  We got here and we didn’t even realize that we got here.  But now we know it.  And we’re standing deflated, attempting to figure out where we got so terribly off course, all the while madly calculating how many years we have left, and how many responsibilities we have on our plate in order to determine if we have the time and the freedom to ever get back on course. Worse yet, some of us don’t even remember what the course was in order to retrace it.  Others of us never set a course for ourselves in the first place; having allowed the winds of life and the currents of circumstance to bring us here.  Whatever the case, there is this chilling, haunting sense that we are not where we wanted to be, and that the path intended to take us there may now be forever forfeited.  We fear a life squandered.  And the question wildly reverberates in a near panic, “how did I get here?”   I Am Where I Am At these times we can certainly pull out our tattered life map, grab whatever compass we’ve used over the years, or review the saved settings on our personal or relational or spiritual GPS.  We can then hunker down over the topography of our past trying to scrawl out the line that brought us h

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    Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part Three

    Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part Three The concept of sacrifice seems more suited to novels or epic movies.  It appears more an ideal; a concept that when observed from a safe distance seems wonderfully heroic, deeply inspiring and chivalrous in a way that stirs up something powerful in us that seems to be forever held hostage despite the fact that it gets stirred.  Sacrifice, as we watch it displayed from afar, awakens some internal passion that chafes against our souls in its quest to be unleashed within us. Somehow sacrifice seems to be something that is entirely right, that is likewise entirely lost.  There are those things that we believe exist yet are lost to mankind; the things we are ever in search of not because we are caught up in some sort of shallow fascination with them.  Rather, there are those things that we know to be authentically real whose absence must be remedied by their discovery.  There are those things that we are made for, yet which are entirely absent. Sacrifice is one of those things.  It’s something that we know we are all called to.  It’s one of those things that we know is the right thing to do; that it’s part of our humanity and represents something undeniably central.  Sacrifice is the totality of our humanity called upward and outward in a grand display of selfless behavior.  It declares that we are not made solely for ourselves, but that we are made for others.  It captivates our minds and catapults our actions to do things we never dreamt possible.  Indeed, it defines the core of our humanity; representing the ultimate action that one human being can take on behalf of another human being.  That’s sacrifice.   The Balance of Sacrifice All of this doesn’t mean that our lives are always about other people.  It’s simply about priority and the arrangement of things in our lives.  Our culture, and in many cases our world seems bent on maximizing our personal gains in any situation.  There appears to be an inherent mentality that the self can be sacrificed, but only to the degree that the self is not actually threatened, or threatened beyond likely recovery.  Sacrifice is calculated and made clean.  Certainly, we must exercise wisdom when we take actions on the behalf of others, but a clear set of priorities would seem to dictate the manner in which we act with others in mind.   Priorities It seems that our actions are dictated by our priorities.  There appears to be this inherent grid that we run decisions through.  That grid seems primarily to hold the welfare of self above everything else.  Clearly, that seems to be in keeping with the natural tendencies and behaviors of base human nature. Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.  There’s some sort of sense of community, of relationship and connection that deems us only a part of a much large whole.  And as a part of that larger whole, we are obligated to preserve the whole above the preservation of self.  That dichotomy all seems rather strange because it appears to run against our natural inclinations to make certain that we’re okay and that our personal interests are protected.   What’s the End-Game? We all ask where we want everything to end up.  At the end of it all, when our days are over and the fullness of our time, talents and energies are spent what will be left?  That’s a terribly big, and in some cases, a terribly frightening question. If our focus is upon ourselves, then the end results of our lives will be likewise focused on us.  The benefits and resources that we will have garnered and spent will serve us and us alone.  That might make for a life that we perceived as satisfying and a good ride, but it ends at our end.  The service of self terminates at our own death.  Therefore we will have left nothing that outlives us, nothing that serves the greater

    10 min

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    Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part Two

    Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part Two Forgiveness often seems to be one of those things that’s a genuinely nice idea, but not really a life liberating reality.  Life is full of nice ideas; those trite sayings, gentle stories and brave concepts that would make life a whole lot better if they were really real.  Nice ideas often seem to be spun of the threads of idealism and the fabric of fanciful thinking.  The reality is that they don’t really seem to work in the real world.  Sometimes the very things that we wish were true simply dissolve and disintegrate when the reality of life hits them.  Forgiveness seems to be one of those things. Sometimes the greatest, most profound truths seem to be the very things that are completely removed from the reality of the lives that we live.  In reality, it’s not that they don’t fit or are idealistic or naïve or far-fetched.  Most often it’s simply the fact that we don’t know how to incorporate them.  Sometimes the greatest truths are so big and so encompassing that we can’t figure out how to figure them in.  And because we can’t somehow make them fit, we assume them to be irrelevant, weak, inadequate or just plain stupid.  Such often seems the fate of forgiveness. The Oxford English Dictionary defines forgiveness as “to grant free pardon and to give up all claim on account of an offence or debt.”  The American Psychological Association expands the definition of forgiveness “as the process of concluding resentment, indignation or anger as a result of a perceived offense, difference or mistake, and/or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution.”  Whatever your definition might be, forgiveness is about letting go in a manner so total that the offense and the restitution are released.   Obstacles to Forgiving Forgiveness is a releasing which makes it difficult on at least three basic fronts.  First, we typically demand restitution be obtained or that justice be meted out for whatever offense we have incurred.  There is a deep sense of justice that demands correction of an offense through some sort of action that both compensates us for whatever loss we’re sustained while teaching the offending party that such actions are inappropriate and intolerable.  The act of forgiveness works against this feeling, making forgiveness difficult and contrary. Second, forgiveness creates a perceived sense of vulnerability.  If we “grant free pardon,” do we then open ourselves up to have the same offense perpetrated upon us again?  Are we giving space and opportunity for the offending party to do to us what they did before?  In forgiving, have we relinquished power that we can no longer hold over the person who offended us in order to keep ourselves safe or make them pay? Third, we see forgiveness as letting someone ‘off the hook.’  It’s a free pass, a mulligan, a turning away where we permit ignorance to erase that which should not be erased.  We feel we do an injustice by not handing out justice and instead waving off an offense in a manner that seems both irresponsible and ignorant.  Forgiveness is often seen as an easy way to resolve or bypass something that should be dealt with.   What Forgiveness is Not Forgiveness is not saying that the offense was ‘okay’ or somehow less than what it really was.  It’s not watering down the offense or somehow sweeping the whole thing under the proverbial carpet in some sort of passive gesture.  Forgiveness has nothing at all to do with avoidance or passivity.  There’s nothing placating or escapist about it.  It’s not an act of weakness nor is it a means to maneuver around that which we find unsavory or downright scary.  It is in reality an act of the utmost strength, the highest form of sacrifice and the deepest manifestation of our humanity.  The truth is, it’s simply saying that to hold the offense against the person is simply too toxic for the one holding it.  We will be offended and we will take hits tha

    11 min

  4. 5 MARS

    Obstacles to Prayer - Taking It to Our Knees

    Obstacles to Prayer LifeTalk “I want to live a life where prayer is the first thing that I do, the second thing, the third thing, and the last thing after the prayer has been answered.” Craig D. Lounsbrough Many of the obstacles to prayer are things that we have not given sufficient attention to, or we think that they’re somehow normal, appropriate, or of no real concern. These are the things that present themselves as rather casual issues that are of little importance. But they can (in fact) be major obstacles to an effective prayer life. In this podcast we’re going to outline a handful of these destructive factors that too often lay hidden in our lives. And in wondering how or why our prayer lives seem so ineffectual or hollow, we might ask if any of these factors have found a place of residence in our lives.   Obstacles to Prayer Sin. Sin is an intentional living outside of the will of God that places us at odds with who God created us to be. Sin is described as “anything that separates us from God.” If we are engaging in such behaviors, we come to prayer already separated from the God to Whom we are praying. Self-Centered Agendas. We tend to live out our lives based on our agendas and our perception of what is in our best interest. Therefore, we do not come to prayer seeking God’s direction, God’s will, God’s insights, or God’s perspective. Rather, we come with a prepared agenda where we wrangle with God in order to achieve these agendas or obtain the resources to achieve them. Distractions.  Prayer becomes the thing that we squeeze into the many demands in our lives. It’s something that sits somewhere near the bottom of the rather extensive checklist that outlines our obligations and duties. We intend to give prayer space and time, but it often falls prey to the many other demands that press prayer off of our calendar. Shiny Object and Squirrels. There are many things that vie for our attention. In reality, most of those things are not imperative to life and living, although we grant them that exact status. It’s often assumed that if something in our life demands our attention it’s because ignoring it will have dire consequences, when in fact deferring the majority of these things is unlikely to result in any consequence of consequence. As such, in the perpetual bombardment of an unnecessarily busy life, prayer is easily set aside. Lack of Faith.  We are lacking in faith. The lack of faith either inhibits our prayers as we feel that we bring very little to the process, or we bring little to the process because we don’t necessarily believe in praying anyway. We must remember that the size of our faith only becomes an issue when we refuse to use the faith that we have. So, use the faith that you’ve got to increase the faith that you don’t have. Unmet Expectations.   We come to prayer with expectations regarding the outcome of our prayers. If those outcomes are not achieved, we feel that prayer is ineffectual or irrelevant. If it fails to generate our prescribed outcomes, we’re quick to label prayer as irrelevant or entirely powerless. Our assumptions rest in the belief that our expectations are the ones that are right for our situation, rather than being the one’s that we should explore in order to determine what might actually be right for us. A Jaded Heart.  We feel that God has not answered our prayers in the way that we wanted, or in the time frame that we wanted, or maybe He didn’t answer them at all. We have found God disappointing, demanding, less than generous, absent, or a God that crushes our desires despite how passionately we bring them to Him. We refuse to understand that God cannot fulfill many of our desires because it is the fulfilling that would do the crushing.  Therefore, we either refuse to pray any longer, or we do so in such a limited fashion that it can barely be defined as prayer. The Lure of the World.  The world is full of enticing things that have no depth and lack any substance whats

    10 min

  5. 4 MARS

    ”Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complex Journey” - Part One

    "Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone - Simple Truth's for Life's Complex Journey" - Part One We yearn for security.  There is an inherent need deep within the fiber of our being that desires to be able to lean on and lean into the things around us, knowing with steeled assuredness that they will hold us firm and steady.  We want life to be safe because we have a passion to engage life.  And to engage life out to its furthest edges, we must of necessity step out of ourselves and into that which is around us.  We have to step up, step off and step out.  Any real journey is of necessity a journey beyond ourselves.  A robust journey unapologetically takes us outside of all that we are able to keep safe, into that which we cannot.  To do that, we by nature need some degree of safety in the endeavor. Not only do we naturally yearn to lean out into life, life at many junctures demands it, and a real journey is not possible without it.  Life frequently arrays itself before us in a manner that forces us to trust; to moderate or marginalize caution and to step out onto ground or relationships or circumstances that have not entirely convinced us of their certainty or safety.  Sometimes we have to step out into things that are not of themselves safe at all.  Yet, if we are to journey, we must step out into these things.  Likewise, if we want to embrace everything there is to embrace, we must step out into and onto all of these things for most of them do not necessarily come to us.  We must of necessity go to them; extending not only the effort stepping out, but taking the entire initiative of seeking them out as they move either largely hidden or complete obscure.  Life most often calls us outward.  It beckons with grand and rich invitations that hold out the promise of growth and great adventure.  But it does not always come to us with those invitations.  We most often must go to it.  The hard evidence of our passion for the journey is illustrated in our willingness to chase it however elusive it might be.   The Risk in it All Life however is terribly imperfect.  It seems that there was some grand design that granted us tremendous ability and then graced life with tremendous opportunity.  There seems to be shadows of some great correlation where we were equipped to do great things and then life laid out great resources and ample space within which to do those things.  The chemistry of it all made life something potentially grand.  Somewhere the whole marvelous arrangement seemed to have gotten marred.  Somehow it was apparently damaged.  “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), which is the ultimate loss of the ultimate gift.  The original intention of grand opportunities remains, but it now has to overcome obstacles, barriers, and various difficulties.  Life demands that we battle disappointments, cruel turns, unexpected twists and surreal pain.  Life remains for the taking, but it now comes with risk; sometimes great risk.   Betrayal as Part of the Risk Into all of this comes betrayal.  Betrayal is a cruel reversal.  It takes the trust entrusted and uses it for purposes contrary to trust’s intent.  Trust is a powerful thing.  It willingly bequeaths both power and vulnerability when it extends itself to another or to life.  Without trust, the greatest things in life are simply not achievable.  Trust pushes out the boundaries. It allows us to extend ourselves out into places we would not otherwise venture.  Whether that trust is vested in the destination itself, who we’re journeying with, who we’re journeying for, or whether that trust is vested in ourselves, it must be present.  Trust is the prerequisite to risk and without risk little can be accomplished. Betrayal takes trust and cruelly uses it to the advantage or purpose of the one initiating the betrayal.  The agenda is most often self-centered.  It’s about using trust to achieve an agenda that trust was not extended to achieve.  Betrayal is altering both the journey

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  6. A Personal Testimony - Life

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    A Personal Testimony - Life

    The odds that are we’ve never met, and if we have, I hope that I was able to leave something with you in the meeting as that is my passion and my calling. My life has been devoted to helping people.  You know, you start out with a vision to help people, and that vision is often pretty romanticized.  In your mind you envision changing people lives, and because you are, you envision changing the world.  It all becomes kind of heroic, and valiant, and courageous, and all of that. But you soon discover that helping people (truly helping them), will ask everything of you.  It’ll drain you.  At times it will drive you to despair.  You will look pain, and loss, and abuse, and hopelessness, and shattered lives, and addictions…you will look all of that stuff in the face, and you will find yourself questioning your ability to do anything about it at all.  Sooner or later, helping people will leave you with some level of trauma, and there will come a time (more than one time) that helping people make you ask if the world and the people in it are simply beyond hope.  Helping people will ask everything of you, and at times it will take everything from you. As I sit with people day-in and day-out, I sit there with my own pain as well.  My own life has been marked by pain, by personal devastation, by losses that I thought impossible to survive, by abandonment that left me devastated, and by disappointments that crushed me to the point that I thought that recovery (of any kind) was simply a fantasy that was too painful to fantasize about.  And so, I live the two sides of pain.  Those of the people that I’ve served for over forty years, and that of my own pain.  And there’s nothing heroic in that, as there are untold millions of people who set out each day to make the world a better place despite the wounds that they carry as they seek to heal the wounds that others carry.  And to all of you who are the walking wounded who have given their lives over to help those others who are wounded, whoever or wherever you may be, you have my deepest admiration. But here’s the point in all of this.  Many people mock God as either someone who only exists in the feeble-minded or those who has to find security is some fabricated myth. Or if He does exist, he’s someone who’s incapable, or incompetent, or irrelevant, or out of touch, or outmoded, or inherently judgmental, or someone who’s failed us in entirely unacceptable ways…or however we’ve labeled Him. But without hesitation, and without any sense of contrived religiosity, or syrupy idealism, or preachy verbiage, I can tell you that God is real.  I can also tell you that I would not be sitting here without Him.  And that’s not some cute or inspiring statement that’s supposed to trigger some emotion in you.  It’s my reality.  Life would have destroyed me without Him.  God is my rock in every sense of the word.  He is sturdy in the storm, both my own and those that I work with each and every day.  He is in the turmoil, but He is above it.  He is not the cause of our pain, but He is the solution to it.  He is not some idealized myth created by weak people who can’t face the realities of the world.  He is the greatest reality in all of the world.  He is what you need.  He is the everything in the middle of your nothing. And I know this because I’ve lived it.  More than once.  In the pain.  In the darkness.  In the loss.  In the confusion.  In those moments of deep desperation.  When hope is something that I just can’t believe in any longer because life has left no place for it.  At those times in life when I can’t take the next step because I can’t get myself off of the ground so that I can try and take it.  I know that God is all of those things because I’ve watched Him do the impossible in my life, and I’ve sat next to tens of thousands of people, and I’ve watched Him do the impossible in lives whose situations were nothing but impossible. Our culture would deny this.  In fact, it would ridicule

    9 min

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    What Our Purpose Tells Us

    The question of purpose is simple, direct, but inherently complicated. The question demands bravery. It rises on the belief that we have an utterly indispensable role to play in our own existence because it is not just our own existence. Fulfilling our purpose has an equally critical role to play in the existence of others. It is our part in this ever-unfolding corporate story that we have been granted an indispensable part in.  What “Purpose” Tells Us: First, We’re More Than Just the Sum Total of Our Existence The fact that we have a purpose evidences the fact that we are more than just the sum total of whoever it is that we are. A purpose says that we have a much larger role in this thing that we call life than just the living out of our individual lives.  Life is bigger than any of us will ever be as an individual. Purpose tells us that we’re specifically designed to engage every bit of that expanse. A purpose tells us that we are far more than just the sum total of our existence because we are called to do something in an existence that far exceeds us. A purpose tells us that we are more than just “us.” Second, There is Something Greater Than Us That We’re Invited to Participate In The fact that we have a purpose tells us that is ‘something else’ out there. It tells us that the horizons in life don’t come anywhere close to ending at the end of our existence as the single, solitary human beings that all of us are. The nature of purpose is such that it will always be bigger than us and it always live beyond us. It grants us the opportunity of legacy. It extends our influence beyond our own death when we’re no longer here to extend it. These unshakeable realities substantiate the fact that there’s more out there than we can possibly imagine. Gratefully, a purpose tells us that we are not the end of all that there is. In fact, ‘we’ are barely the beginning, and that in and of itself is wildly exciting. Third, We’re a Piece of a Much Larger Puzzle That Would be Incomplete Without Us Our purpose tells us that this massive world out there, as huge as it is, is sorely incomplete without us. As big and as enormous and as complicated and as intricate as the world is, it remains less than completely complete without us. We have a purpose in this world that only we can complete. Large or small, complicated or simple, breathtaking or life giving, regardless of what our purpose is, the world will be incomplete unless we fulfill it. We are utterly irreplaceable which makes every one of us invaluable beyond any sort of monetary reckoning that we could hope to calculate. Everything that’s out there will be less than everything that’s out there if we forsake our purpose. And that fact makes us incredibly valuable. Fourth, We Do Not Need to Surrender to the Mundane Our purpose tells us that life is intentional. It is to live out something not in the frustration of random happenstance, but in something for which this life was purposely designed.  It tells us that we have the power and the mission to vividly enhance life, rather than living in some terribly foreboding mindset while we sit on ‘pins and needles’ anxiously waiting to see how life is going to play itself out. There is a destination that has enough meaning and sufficient value to call us to the challenges that will certainly be part of fulfilling that purpose. That we are not here to aimlessly pass by and leaving nothing in the passing.  To the contrary, our existence is designed to live on beyond our existence. To leave a bold legacy of generational impact. And to do this for those that walk beside us as well as those who will come behind us. Fifth, We Can Deny It Could it be that the first and foremost purpose of ‘purpose’ is to convince us that we have one? Is it likely that our purpose can only be fully manifest in a manner utterly transformational when we are convinced that we have a purpose to manifest? Possibly the most brilliant way that ‘purpose’ can do that is

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  8. Personal Testimony - Dreams that Die

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    Personal Testimony - Dreams that Die

    You know, I grew up with a lot of dreams.  A lot of things that I wanted to do.  We all have dreams.  Maybe your dream was to have a great marriage.  Maybe it was to start a company that changed a community, or a nation, or maybe the world.  Maybe it was to raise solid kids, or travel, or write a book, or invent something revolutionary that made life better for other people, or live in some particular place, or achieve some level of financial comfort, or whatever it might have been.  And as you grow older, you actually find yourself kind of refining those dreams.  You tweak them.  You roll them over in your head.  You begin to adjust them ‘here and there’ to fit the world as your understanding of the world matures and sharpens and grows and expands.  And as that refining thing happens, you begin to figure out how these dreams might actually work.  How you might actually be able to pull all of that stuff off.  It’s a really neat kind of thing.  And in thinking out loud, I would guess that, at some level, you’ve had those kinds of dreams as well.  That you’ve played with some really cool ideas.  That there was something that you were excited about, that gave you some sort of energy or sense of excitement.  That you had some sort of vision for your life that added something to your life that you needed.  But then life happens.  In whatever way it happens, it happens.  It happens to all of us.  And many times, whatever happens ends up killing those dreams.  They die.  They just die.  Sometimes they die before they were ever born, or sometimes the dream is actually beginning to unfold and then it dies.  However or whenever it happens, they die.  And sometimes we try to bring them back, or resurrect them in whatever way that we try to do that.  We try to figure out how to do them differently, or modify them, or come at them from a different angle.  Or we decide to fight the thing that’s killed our dreams.  We figure that if we can eliminate whatever killed our dreams, (or at least beat it up pretty thoroughly), that maybe, just maybe, we can get our dream back. At other times we just let our dreams die.  We either don’t know what to do, or we’re overwhelmed, or we can’t get past a sense of injustice or unfairness, or whatever it is.  And because we let it die (because we feel that we have no other option but to let it die) we refuse to ever dream again because the death of a dream is just too painful.  It’s just too much. The world will kill our dreams.  Life has no qualms about showing up and killing the very things that we spent a large part of our lives living for.  Dreams die every day.  They die at the hands of whole bunch of stuff.  And for every dream that dies, something on the inside of the person dies as well.  The death of a dream is just too painful because a part of us dies right along with it. I’ve had many dreams die.  So have you.  And every time one died, something inside of us died too.  But when my dreams died, here’s I’ve found.  I learned that God has a dream for each of us that will never die.  Never.  It’s just too big to die, it’s place in God’s plan is just too important to let it die, and it’s backed up by a God who never dies.  There are many who would not agree with me.  And that’s okay.  However, I believe that God has a dream for your life that’s bigger than any dream that you could conjure up.  God’s dream for you exceeds anything that you could dream for you.  So, ask Him what it is.  Talk to a pastor.  Get into your Bible and start reading.  If you don’t have one, buy one, or download a Bible app.  Listen to Christian music.  Find a church.  God can and will use any or all of these to help you discover the dream that you were fashioned to live out.  And that dream won’t die.

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Life Talk is a podcast intentionally designed to enrich your life, deepen your marriage, enhance your parenting, maximize your work life, and dramatically embolden this journey that we call life.

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