{"id":19533,"date":"2026-03-11T07:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/a-spiritual-celebration\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:08:04","slug":"a-spiritual-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/friends-and-family\/friends\/a-spiritual-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spiritual Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am posting this blog a little earlier than usual because I am about to hop on a plane for Akron, Ohio, to celebrate Founders\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s so inspiring about Founders\u2019 Day? For one thing, without it I would not be here talking to you. 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The minister told Bill Wilson that he knew someone who was a good man but a hopeless drunk, Dr. Robert H. Smith.<\/p>\n<p>A wealthy widow named Henrietta Seiberling offered the use of the Gate Lodge on her Stan Hywet Estate for the propitious meeting. The two men talked alone for hours. Bill talked because talking was keeping him sober a minute at a time. Dr. Bob talked because hearing another alcoholic share his story of suffering and recovery, of experience, strength and hope, brought the message of sobriety alive. He had had his last drink. And both men felt the grace of a higher power\u2014whom they understood as God\u2014infusing the Gate Lodge that June day in 1935, the founding of A.A.<\/p>\n<p>Some 77 years later A.A. has brought the miracle of sobriety to millions of men and women, each of those miracles a story of hopelessness and powerlessness yielding to the grace of that higher power.<\/p>\n<p>Every year thousands of grateful, sober drunks flock to Akron on Founders\u2019 Day to pay homage to the site of what would become their redemption, a kind of sacred triangulation between Bill\u2019s hotel, Dr. Bob\u2019s house and the Gate Lodge at Stan Hywet Hall &amp; Gardens. I\u2019m incredibly honored and, frankly, amazed to be one of the speakers this year thanks to the work of great friends of Guideposts and the Stan Hywet Gate Lodge, Akronites Ron and Lily Glosser.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday at 1 pm, I\u2019ll be at the Gate Lodge signing copies and reading and from my book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopguideposts.org\/promise-hope-audio.html\">The Promise of Hope<\/a><\/em>, about my own struggle with drugs and drink and the improbable path that brought me to Guideposts. Stop by, I\u2019d love to meet you.<\/p>\n<p>Many people don\u2019t know that Bill Wilson and Norman Vincent Peale, the founder of Guideposts and author of <em>The Power of Positive Thinking<\/em>, were great friends. It\u2019s a natural spiritual alliance, though, once you think about it. Check out Bill W.\u2019s landmark article from a 1947 issue of <em>Guideposts<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/guideposts.org\/inspirational-stories\/is-aa-for-alcoholics-only\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cIs A.A. for Alcoholics Only?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you in Akron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am posting this blog a little earlier than usual because I am about to hop on a plane for Akron, Ohio, to celebrate Founders\u2019 Day. What\u2019s so inspiring about Founders\u2019 Day? For one thing, without it I would not be here talking to you. I wouldn\u2019t be anywhere, in fact. 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