Alcoholics Anonymous and a Chaplain’s Mission
Dick B.
Dear Dick, It has
been a while since I wrote you, I have been trying to absorb and understand the
books you sent me. Soon I will be ordering two titles, The Akron Genesis of AA
and The Conversion of Bill Wilson. All I
can say for now is that God is faithful, and your writings will live on for
years to come. So much more will be revealed through your research. Others,
like me, need time to assemble all this in our minds. And as you said, the
study of Anne Ripley Smith and her role and teachings are an untapped resource
for some great research. As always I just want to thank you so much for your
faithfulness, on a personal level my recovery has been strengthened through
your work. I have busied myself reading and working with others, much of what
you have written is only now beginning to gel in my mind and I am passing it
on. I struggled for years with the admonition to not walk in the counsel of the
ungodly, that has changed after reading your books and knowing the Big Book
comes from God's word. AA is my mission
field and the fellowship I love, as you do.
Being a Chaplain in a Rescue Mission is strenuous work for the Christian
so the help you give me is magnified and I wanted you to know that. In Christ,
Chaplain Jim Gantner Atlantic
City Rescue Mission PS, Et verbum caro
factum est. John 1:14 and the Word was made flesh. (Any Attorney
loves a good Latin phrase). May God bless you with continued good health and
strength.
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