November 3

November 3 – AM          Page 116-117, To Wives, Chapter 8

We have elsewhere remarked how much better life is when lived on a spiritual plane.  If God can solve the age-old riddle of alcoholism, He can solve your problems too.  We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.  As our husbands began to apply spiritual principles in their lives, we began to see the desirability of doing so too.
At first, some of us did not believe we needed this help.  We thought, on the whole, we were pretty good women, capable of being nicer if our husbands stopped drinking.  But it was a silly idea that we were too good to need God.  Now we try to put spiritual principles to work in every department of our lives.  When we do that, we find it solves our problems too; the ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.  We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.  Go along with your husband if you possibly can.

November 3 – PM           Page 83-84, Into Action, Chapter 6

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.  We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.  We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.  We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.  No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.  That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.  We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.  Self-seeking will slip away.  Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.  Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.  We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.  We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises?  We think not.  They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.  They will always materialize if we work for them.