“Privileged People”, p. 133
I saw that I had been living too much alone, too much aloof from my
fellows, and too deaf to 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 fraternal ties 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 privileged people.”
Grapevine, July 1946
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