Your Daily Reprieve

Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday  May  31,  2017 From Waynesville, NC When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up. -Kathleen McDonald, Approach each problem with an open mind, not an open mouth. ~Unknown Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed. ~ Erastus Wiman "For peace of mind resign as general ruler of the universe." – Anonymous Big Book Quote "Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that's exactly what this book is about." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 45 ...

Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday  May  30,  2017 From Waynesville, NC "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." – Philo "I use notes to remind me to seek my Higher Power ... On my desk, in front of my computer is the note: 'Good morning, this is God, I will be handling all your worries and concerns for today. I will not need your help!'"  ~Grapevine: Buffalo Grove, Ill., November 2013 ‘Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.’ ~Richard Hooker ‘Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.’ ~Franklin P. Adams ‘You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.’ ~Leymah Gbowee ‘Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.’ ~Voltaire Big Book Quote   "Neither could we reduce our self-centeredness much by wishing or trying on our own p...