56 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough about Holidays
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What’s special about a story if I could have thought it up? What’s special about a story if I was actually courageous enough to play a part in it? What’s special about the Christmas story is that I am incapable of doing either but God did both.
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I’ve written a few stories in my time. But sooner or later you realize that the greatest stories can’t be written by men because the best of our humanity can’t pen the stories that will save our lives. And so, God sat down and wrote one on Christmas.
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The greatest gift in any gift is that there was someone who loved us so much that they simply could not keep themselves from giving the gift to us. And by far, the best example of that ‘someone’ is God, and the thing that He couldn’t keep Himself from giving us was Christmas.
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It was His love for us that cost Him everything. And that is the essence of Christmas that should be the substance of our lives.
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I’m not certain that the greatest thrill was actually being rescued. Rather, I think that the greatest thrill was finally realizing that I would be. And the cry of an infant two thousand years ago was that realization.
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Christmas does not invite you to something that happened in history. Rather, Christmas is God inviting you to something that’s already shaping your eternity.
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We want to know that our worth is not altogether lost in the vastness of our obscurity. And I find it of tremendous comfort to remember that Christmas was the greatest Being in all of existence being born into the greatest obscurity ever imagined in order to declare that with God, there is no such thing.
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The Christmas story was a story where genius of the greatest sort collided with love of an infinite kind and scripted a story that was magnificently played out in the lives of terribly ordinary people. And is God not waiting to write just such stories for us and in us?
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The only thing that I fear about death is that it will occur before I’ve had the chance to really live. And it is Christmas that hands me the chance to live while it leaves death with no chance to steal any of that from me.
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