56 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough about Holidays
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Christmas is God coming to the very place that we would never think to look for Him. And I think He did that because we live in the very places that the world would never think to look for us.
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Christmas is God deciding to find people who didn’t want to be found but could not afford not to be found.
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Christmas is God dreaming of something ingeniously outrageous and refusing to let the unimaginable magnitude of such a dream and the scrutiny that it is certain to endure impede the implementation of the dream. And is Christmas not God saying, ‘Go and do likewise?
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Some doubt the Christmas story, placing it as a piece of fiction penned to perpetuate a myth. And could it be that the majesty of this story is so utterly vast that fiction is the only way that they could restrain it sufficiently to keep it from commandeering their lives?
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If we choose to make the darkness our light we must ascribe Christmas to the genre of childish myths of the most mythical sort, for that is the only way to make it dark enough for us to tolerate it.
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Have we ever consider the boldness of Christmas? For to craft such a daring story and to do so in a manner that it is sufficiently sturdy to stand up under the relentless scrutiny that is certain to be brought to bear against such a story is boldness indeed. And when God pens a story He does so not fearing scrutiny, but inviting as much of it as any one of us can muster up, for God does nothing that is not bold. Such is God and such is Christmas.
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Every gift that we will ever receive, bar one, will die ‘with us.’ The only gift that died ‘for us’ so that nothing ever need die ‘with us’ is the gift that God handed us on Christmas. And as for me, I done with all the dying.
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To embrace God does not involve some complex formula of endless dictates or the embracing of a rule mongering tyrant with a forever list of expectations. It simply involves saying “yes” to the gift of Christmas and “no” to every lesser gift simply because every other gift is lesser. And how simple is that?
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Christmas is the beginning of a wonderfully tumultuous story of God coming on tip-toe in order to turn the world on it’s head.
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