A Letter from Bill Wilson

  Bill Wilson replied personally to letters from many Alcoholics Anonymous members. Seven Years Before He Died Bill W Wrote to Paul; an Alcoholics Anonymous member in Mackay, Queensland, Australia. October 28, I964 My dear Paul, Thanks very much for the stirring account of your most genuine spiritual experience. I need not say that this is a gift of Grace that was no doubt made possible by your condition of extreme deflation that preceded it. Your sudden projection into what for you was a new world of consciousness and reality can enable you to do, and to be, what was hereto for was impossible. In my view, this is the essence of these gifts. Whether you will use your new discovery well or badly depends largely, I think, upon your willingness. But in any case, you can never be the same again. With these observations I’m sure you are certain to agree. Though many theologians hold that these sudden experiences amount to a special distinction, if not a divine appointment of some sort, I often question this view. For, as you rightly observe, every human being, no matter what his attributes for good or evil, is a part of the divine spiritual economy. Therefore, each of us has his place and I cannot see that God intends necessarily to exalt one over another. Therefore it becomes highly necessary for all of us to accept whatever positive gifts we receive with a deep humility, always bearing in mind that our negative attitudes were first necessary as a means of reducing us to ...
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