November 13

November 13 – AM          Page 161, A Vision For You, Chapter 11

Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they number sixty or eighty as a rule.  Alcoholics are being attracted from far and near.  From surrounding towns, families drive long distances to be present.  A community thirty miles away has fifteen fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.  Being a large place, we think that some day its Fellowship will number many hundreds.*

*Written in 1939.

November 13 – PM          Page 25-26, There Is A Solution, Chapter 2

If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution.  We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives:  One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.  This we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort.