"xmas card from bill"...

The following is a Christmas greeting from Bill W. and others in 1944.


TO ALL MEMBERS Greetings On Our 10th Christmas
1944 Yes, it's in the air! The spirit of Christmas once more warms
this poor distraught world.
Over the whole globe millions are looking forward to that one day
when strife can be forgotten, when it will be remembered that all human
beings, even the least are loved by God, when men will hope for the
coming of the Prince of Peace as they never hoped before But there is
another world which is not poor. Neither is it distraught. It is the world
of Alcoholics Anonymous, where thousands dwell happily and secure.
Secure because each of us, in his own way, knows a greater power who is
love, who is just, and who can be trusted.

Nor can men and women of AA ever forget that only through suffering
did they find enough humility to enter the portals of that New World.

How privileged we are to understand so well the divine paradox that
strength rises from weakness, that humiliation goes before resurrection;
that pain is not only the price but the very touchstone of spiritual
rebirth.

Knowing it's full worth and purpose, we can no longer fear adversity,
we have found prosperity where there was poverty, peace and joy have
sprung out of the very midst of chaos.

Great indeed, our blessings!

And so,-- Merry Christmas to you all-- from the Trustees, from Bobbie
and from Lois and me.

Bill Wilson

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