April 20

April 20 – AM          Page 97, Working With Others, Chapter 7

We seldom allow an alcoholic to live in our homes for long at a time.  It is not good for him, and it sometimes creates serious complications in a family.
Though an alcoholic does not respond, there is no reason why you should neglect his family.  You should continue to be friendly to them.  The family should be offered your way of life.  Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much better chance that the head of the family will recover.  And even though he continues to drink, the family will find life more bearable.

April 20 – PM          Page 82, Into Action, Chapter 6

The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others.  Hearts are broken.  Sweet relationships are dead.  Affections have been uprooted.  Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil.  We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough.  He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined.  To his wife, he remarked, “Don’t see anything the matter here, Ma.  Ain’t it grand the wind stopped blowin’?”