I’m looking for the writting that goes something like,..God appointed alcoholics to help other alcoholics ,…?

Question by Lauralee (The lightworker): I’m looking for the writting that goes something like,..God appointed alcoholics to help other alcoholics ,…?
beause they and only they could understand,… this is not part of the big bk or 12 n 12,…..

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Answer by raysny
The forward to the second edition of the Big Book contains the lines:

This physician had repeatedly tried spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma but had failed. But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth’s description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster. He sobered, never to drink again up to the moment of his death in 1950. **This seemed to prove that one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could.** It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was vital to permanent recovery.
http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_f2e.cfm

This is from Big Book Marketing Proposal, August – December 1938 Forward:
The idea took hold of Mr. Wilson’s imagination, for the envisioned one alcoholic helping another, that one helping still another and so on.
http://www.rewritables.net/cybriety/big_book_marketing_proposal.htm

“One alcoholic helping another” is just a phrase that gets tossed around quite a bit.

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