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Daily Reading – May 18, 2013 – Changing the Channel

. . . if we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false, so soon as one has got used to not suffering,

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Daily Reading – May 18, 2013 – Changing the Channel

. . . if we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false, so soon as one has got used to not suffering,

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Daily Reading – April 25, 2013 – Everything has its wonders…

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. —Helen Keller There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe

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Daily Reading – April 25, 2013 – Everything has its wonders…

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. —Helen Keller There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe

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Daily Reading – April 24, 2013 – Unanswered Prayers

She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer and cries “it shall be done—sometime, somewhere.” —Ophelia Guyon Browning Patience is a quality that frequently eludes us. We want what we want when we want it. Fortunately, we don’t get it until

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Daily Reading – April 24, 2013 – Unanswered Prayers

She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer and cries “it shall be done—sometime, somewhere.” —Ophelia Guyon Browning Patience is a quality that frequently eludes us. We want what we want when we want it. Fortunately, we don’t get it until

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Daily Reading – March 25, 2013 – Stop and Smell The Roses

When I slow down long enough to smell the roses, I usually see the beauty and all else that is ours to share. —Morgan Jennings We overlook so many joys, so many hidden treasures, when we hurry from place to

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Daily Reading – March 25, 2013 – Stop and Smell The Roses

When I slow down long enough to smell the roses, I usually see the beauty and all else that is ours to share. —Morgan Jennings We overlook so many joys, so many hidden treasures, when we hurry from place to

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Daily Recovery Reading – February 19, 2013 – Decisions and Choices

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. —Agnes DeMille The day ahead offers us choices of many kinds—some big ones, many that will affect other persons close to us, a

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Daily Recovery Reading – February 19, 2013 – Decisions and Choices

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. —Agnes DeMille The day ahead offers us choices of many kinds—some big ones, many that will affect other persons close to us, a

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Daily Reading – January 16, 2013 “Missing The Bus”

I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow-travelers, for neither of us is to the other’s personality the end-all and the be-all. —Joanna Field We must look around at the people in our lives today, and

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Daily Reading – January 16, 2013 “Missing The Bus”

I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow-travelers, for neither of us is to the other’s personality the end-all and the be-all. —Joanna Field We must look around at the people in our lives today, and

Daily Reading – January 6, 2013

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us. —Evelyn Mandel Wanting to control other people, to make them live as we’d have them

Daily Reading – January 6, 2013

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us. —Evelyn Mandel Wanting to control other people, to make them live as we’d have them

Daily Reading – November 1, 2012

For to be a woman is to have interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from the hub of a wheel. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh It is sometimes easy to get overwhelmed by our

Daily Reading – November 1, 2012

For to be a woman is to have interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from the hub of a wheel. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh It is sometimes easy to get overwhelmed by our

Daily Reading – October 24, 2012

The universal human yearning [is] for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change. —Willa Cather The specter of change builds dread in most of us. We fear the effects on our personal lives. We lack faith that the impending change

Daily Reading – October 24, 2012

The universal human yearning [is] for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change. —Willa Cather The specter of change builds dread in most of us. We fear the effects on our personal lives. We lack faith that the impending change

Daily Reading – October 20, 2012

One of the conclusions I have come to in my old age is the importance of living in the ever-present now. In the past, too often I indulged in the belief that somehow or other tomorrow would be brighter or

Daily Reading – October 20, 2012

One of the conclusions I have come to in my old age is the importance of living in the ever-present now. In the past, too often I indulged in the belief that somehow or other tomorrow would be brighter or