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To share a few thoughts with you

about what I would like to call the Queen of the Virtue, gratitude. I know from AA Friends that this is a subject that is discussed and felt and talked about and

used as topic for discussion at meetings in AA and has been so discussed from the beginning.

There is, as perhaps you are well aware, a profound sense of gratitude in the heart of practically all alcoholic.

Gratitude itself alcohol.

Gratitude itself is a virtue that stems automatically by its nature from the heart of a receiver, one who has received. And I think the

deeper the need that has been fulfilled, the deeper the sense of gratitude. As you know, the

alcoholic reaches a point in his life where he simply admits powerlessness. He says he's hopeless and he's helpless and he goes

to a power greater than himself and as much as says you have what I want you have what I do not have please

and when it is given, the sense, this feeling of liberation and freedom causes a sense and

a feeling of gratitude to blossom almost immediately and say.

I believe that the beauty of gratitude like the beauty of anything can best be seen in the ugliness of its

opposite. How do you tell someone how beautiful is the scent of a rose. You can contrast it with the scench of garbage. And I think that the beauty of gratitude can best be seen in the ugliness of ingratitude.

Ladies and gentlemen, no one can stand and ingrate. Even little kids who fail to say thank you. There's something

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