May 13

May 13 – AM

Page 117, To Wives, Chapter 8

If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.  But all problems will not be solved at once.  Seed has started to sprout in a new soil, but growth has only begun.  In spite of your new-found happiness, there will be ups and downs.  Many of the old problems will still be with you.  This is as it should be.
The faith and sincerity of both you and your husband will be put to the test.  These work-outs should be regarded as part of your education, for thus you will be learning to live.  You will make mistakes, but if you are in earnest they will not drag you down.  Instead, you will capitalize them.  A better way of life will emerge when they are overcome.

May 13 – PM

Page 160-161, A Vision For You, Chapter 11

Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom.  Many an alcoholic who entered there came away with an answer.  He succumbed to that gay crowd inside, who laughed at their own misfortunes and understood his.  Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.  The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of the place, conspired to let him know that here was haven at last.
The very practical approach to his problems, the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding which these people had were irresistible.  He and his wife would leave elated by the thought of what they could now do for some stricken acquaintance and his family.  They knew they had a host of new friends; it seemed they had known these strangers always.  They had seen miracles, and one was to come to them.  They had visioned the Great Reality—their loving and All Powerful Creator.