Was I, an alcoholic, also a sick man? Yes, very.
To what extent I was personally responsible for my drinking,
I don't know.
Yet I'm not one to take complete 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!
- Bill W., Letter to the Mother of an Alcoholic, December 1944.

Thought to Ponder....

Open up to hope and new possibilities.

Recovery Related Acronym

H O P E = Happy Our Program Exists.