AA Thought for the Day

May 9, 2004

Mother's Day

Dear Mother of "J.":
I cannot tell how poignantly I am stirred by your letter
about your alcoholic son.
Just ten years ago my own mother -- lost hope . . .
I had come to the jumping-off place. . .
Did I, an alcoholic, have a defective character?
Of course I did.
Was I, an alcoholic, also a sick man? Yes, very. . .
You may have heard how a friend 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.
Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, pp. 101-102, from the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Every recovery from alcoholism
began with one sober hour.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

H O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter.


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