My deep respect goes out to every man and woman whose whole being is caught up in a struggle against alcoholism.
Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous on this date, June 10, in 1935. Four years later Dr. Bob wrote, “It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.”
Truly a nightmare. You can read about it, as I did, in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. Is the nightmare affecting you or a loved one? Dr. Bob wrote, “If you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good…, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you. It never fails, if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when you were getting another drink.”
Dr. Bob closes with this: “Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!” (pp. 177, 181)
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