Your Daily Reprieve

            Your Daily Reprieve for August 1,, 2024   From Waynesville, NC     “Times change, people change, and language may change. But the disease of alcoholism does not change. It always kills.” ~ Beaumont, Texas, February 1996     A hug is a great gift. One size fits all, it can be given for any occasion and it's easy to exchange. --Anon     Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it. --unknown     The butterfly often forgets it was a caterpillar. --Swedish Proverb   Big Book Quote   We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.   P30     ...

        Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday July 30, 2024   From Waynesville, NC     “Though my sobriety had come easy, the growing up business hadn’t. Both emotional and spiritual growth have always been mighty difficult for me.” ~ Bill W., September 1957   We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. -John Steinbeck     Our concern must be to live while we’re alive --to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a façade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. -Elisabeth Kuebler- Ross   God is the essence of life.   Always present.   Always knowing. Forever giving us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it. Unfortunately, far too many of us believe that God only provides for the good people, because God l...