Your Daily Reprieve 12.01.21
Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday December 1, 2021 From Waynesvile, NC “As long as I am willing to do what I am called to do in any given moment and to abandon the effort to control the results of my actions, then I am following the path that my Higher Power – call it God, Good Orderly Direction, the soul, the life force, or anything else – has set out for me.” ~ Grapevine: T hompson, Pennsylvania, March 1997 Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ~Thomas Merton Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."