Your Daily Reprieve

Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday   December 1, 2019 From Waynesville, NC Lord, when I am wrong, give me the willingness to change. When I am finally right, make me easy to live with! ~John (Anonymous) If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down." ~Ray Bradbury People talk about the "sacrifice" we make in doing what's right instead of what we want to do. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own best reward in activity that leads to gratitude, the consciousness of doing good, and peac...

Your Daily Reprieve for Saturday   November   30, 2019 From Waynesville, NC "Courage is, with love, the greatest gift. We are, each of us, defeated many times - but if we accept defeat with cheerfulness, and learn from it, and try another way - then we will find fulfilment." ~Rosanne Ambrose-Brown “Without a connection to my Higher Power, I am the same old person with the same old defects, causing the same old pain in my life and others’.” ~Grapevine: Berlin, Connecticut, September 2004 Isolation is often God's place of invitation. ~Sharon Jaynes Sometimes figuring out who you are leads to figuring out who you’ll never be again. May you be blessed with a soul-searching experience that results in a better than ever version of yourself. Go deep. Learn from past mistakes. Be who God intended you to be.  ~Prayables Big Book Quote I have seen hundreds of...