THANKSGIVING DAY

“I saw that I had been living too much alone, too much aloof from my fellows, and too deaf that voice within. Instead of seeing myself as a simple agent bearing the message of experience, I had thought of myself as a founder of A.A.

How much better it would have been had I felt gratitude rather than self-satisfaction – gratitude that I had once suffered the pains of alcoholism, gratitude that a miracle of recovery had been worked upon me from above, gratitude for the privilege of serving my fellow alcoholics, and gratitude for those  in the fellowship   which bound me ever closer to them in a comradeship, such as few societies of men have ever known.

Truly, did  a clergyman say to me, “Your misfortune has become your good fortune. You A.A.’s are a privileged people.”

Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

” I TOO AM GRATEFUL FOR  THE TWELVE STEPS OF  DEPRESSED ANONYMOUS   OF RECOVERY  FROM  DEPRESSION.  THE FACT THAT I ONCE SUFFERED THE PAIN OF DEPRESSION AND NOW I AM FREE  PROVIDES ME WITH A GRATITUDE ATRTITUDE,  DAY IN AND DAY OUT!

Hugh S.