Your Daily Reprieve

Your Daily Reprieve for Monday July  31,  2017 From Jacksonville, FL "I still don't know much about heaven, but I've learned some valuable lessons about life on earth." ~Grapevine: December 1979 When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat. "Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people." Fred Rogers "You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominan

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday July 30 ,  2017 From Jacksonville, FL "God help me not to walk backwards through life. Keep me from being so focused on what is past that I fail to savor what is present or imagine what is to come. Let me learn my lessons that I may not repeat my own history of mistakes. Let me reflect on past glories but with enough humility to know they are memories not mandates. Free me from lingering regret, anger too long carried, hurt that haunts my dreams and steals the joy from what I should now cherish as your healing gift. Turn my face forward, God, that I may better see you coming to meet me." ~Steven Charleston "Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before." – Arthur Guiterman It is not HAPPY people who are GRATEFUL... but rather GRATEFUL people who are HAPPY !!! ~PBNPB "I still don't know much about heaven, but I've learned some