On this day.. - Friends of Bill W. - tribe.netTribe.net. Local ConnectionsRe: On this day..haroldhttp://fobw.tribe.net/thread/f0b43337-499e-4cba-b949-150c8d3f563b#a837d41c-53f8-4eb2-8719-c64309c3a32d2009-05-23T15:34:21Z2009-05-23T15:33:44Zhttp://www.orange-papers.org/orange-bigbook.html
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-rroot030.htmlharold2009-05-23T15:33:44ZOn this day..✪datpotterhttp://fobw.tribe.net/thread/f0b43337-499e-4cba-b949-150c8d3f563b#f3dd29b4-e6e1-4cfb-8ce7-d8f5af6565272009-05-12T14:16:00Z2009-05-12T14:16:00ZMay 12, 1935 at 5:00 P.M.
Bill meets Dr. Bob at the Gate House of the Seiberling Estate. Bob is
still drinking. Bill tells Bob of his experiences with alcohol; of
the hopes, promises, and failures; the obsession, compulsion, and
physical allergy; of Ebby's visit and his simple message, "show me
your faith and by my works I will show you mine."
Dr. Bob understood with sudden clarity - the difference with the
Oxford Group. "The spiritual approach was as useless as any other if
you soaked it up like a sponge and kept it to yourself." The purpose
of life was not to "get," it was to "give."
Bill presented Dr. Bob with four aspects of one core idea:
(1) Utter Hopelessness
(2) Totally Deflated
(3) Requiring Conversion
(4) Needing Others
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There is a picture of the gate house, and an article (from 2006)
about the meeting between Dr. Bob and Bill W. at
<http://www.akron.com/20060601/wsl72.asp>✪datpotter2009-05-12T14:16:00Z