Your Daily Reprieve 04.01.21
Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday April 1, 2021 From Jacksonville, FL “I need my home group to be a place where I can learn to practice the principles embodied in the Twelve Steps with other alcoholics. This sets in motion my willingness to practice these principles in all my affairs, including my home life.” ~Grapevine: Vinton, Iowa, August 2001 A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ~ Michel de Montaigne Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwin We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem