December 31

December 31 – AM          Page 152-153, A Vision For You, Chapter 11

“How is that to come about?” you ask.  “Where am I to find these people?”
You are going to meet these new friends in your own community.  Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly like people in a sinking ship.  If you live in a large place, there are hundreds.  High and low, rich and poor, these are future fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.  Among them you will make lifelong friends.  You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.  Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life.  You will learn the full meaning of “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

December 31 – PM          Page 104-105, To Wives, Chapter 8

We have traveled a rocky road, there is no mistake about that.  We have had long rendezvous with hurt pride, frustration, self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.  These are not pleasant companions.  We have been driven to maudlin sympathy, to bitter resentment.  Some of us veered from extreme to extreme, ever hoping that one day our loved ones would be themselves once more.