Carrying the Message

I notice that in these loner letters (once we have become well acquainted and understand each other) we seldom find ourselves writing much about drink. We concern ourselves more with the things that worry us and the person to whom we are writing--things that might tempt us to hold our hard-won sobriety a little too lightly. Sometimes I feel these sorts of letters, easing our frustrations as they do, tend to dam the torrent at its source. And above all, when we set ourselves to the task of continuing a large correspondence with other alcoholics, we spend a lot of time thinking AA and writing it and living it. A dozen or two letters a week may take more than that many hours--if we have it--and that is far more AA than I got in one short meeting a week in the days when I could get there.