April 15

April 15 – AM          Page 158-159, A Vision For You, Chapter 11

So, you see, there were three alcoholics in that town, who now  felt they had to give to others what they had found, or be sunk.  After several failures to find others, a fourth turned up.  He came through an acquaintance who had heard the good news.  He proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow whose parents could not make out whether he wanted to stop drinking or not.  They were deeply religious people, much shocked by their son’s refusal to have anything to do with the church.  He suffered horribly from his sprees, but it seemed as if nothing could be done for him.  He consented, however, to go to the hospital, where he occupied the very room recently vacated by the lawyer.
He had three visitors.  After a bit, he said, “The way you fellows put this spiritual stuff makes sense.  I’m ready to do business.  I guess the old folks were right after all.”  So one more was added to the Fellowship.

April 15 – PM          Page 82, Into Action, Chapter 6

If we have no such complication, there is plenty we should do at home.  Sometimes we hear an alcoholic say that the only thing he needs to do is to keep sober.  Certainly he must keep sober, for there will be no home if he doesn’t.  But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has so shockingly treated.  Passing all understanding is the patience mothers and wives have had with alcoholics.  Had this not been so, many of us would have no homes today, would perhaps be dead.