To what extent I was personally responsible
for my drinking, I don't know.
Yet I'm not one to take refuge in the idea
that I was a sick man only.
In earlier years I certainly had some degree of free will.
That free will I used badly,
to the great misery of my mother and countless others.
I am deeply ashamed.
As one who knows me a little, you may have heard how,
ten years ago, a friend, himself a liberated alcoholic,
came to me bearing the light
which finally led me out of the toils.
There will come a day like that for you and yours --
I'm so confident!
As ever, Bill W.
Letter to the Mother of an Alcoholic, December 1944

Thought to Ponder....

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

Recovery Related Acronym

H O P E = Hang On! Peace Exists.