Sandy B. — Spiritual Principles (Disc 2) (2010)

RS-G126 · MODERN ERA · AA · 2010

Sandy B.

Spiritual Principles (Disc 2) · Unknown
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SpeakerSandy B.
EventSpiritual Principles (Disc 2)
LocationUnknown
Year2010
EraModern Era
FellowshipAA
Duration53:31
RS NumberRS-G126
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All right, everybody. We're going to now shift gears a little bit, but we're still going to talk about something very spiritual. I think I told you that in my early years, I just never saw any value to history when I was growing up. Do you want to study American history? I remember just going, it already happened. I want to see something new. That was my stupid attitude about history. And then after I've been sober a while, I think I read AA Comes of Age, and I started looking at our history as the most improbable chain of events. It's just a miracle that this thing came together. And then the more you study our history, the bigger miracle it is that this thing came together. And you suddenly, on your own, without anybody telling you, you start realizing something that loves us decided to give alcoholics a place after thousands of years of no place to go. And it's so interesting, when they first wanted to hold meetings, churches were the most open-minded. And they would say, what, you're a bunch of drunks, and you're doing what, and you want to be in our church? You know, you go to a storefront or something, you go, we'd like to rent some space there. We're a bunch of drunks. Don't worry. Don't worry about us. If you were a store owner, you'd go, I don't think so. So the churches, well, God, this whole thing. So they started welcoming us. And when I first got sober, on the anniversary of the group, the minister was always there to thank us for being in his congregation. We're downstairs, it's up north, so we had basements. So we're in the basement, the rest of the people are up here. But the same thing is happening. We're trying to show people how to find God, they're trying to show people how to find God up there. And so he would come down, and I've had more ministers say, if I had a congregation like this, I'd have the best job in the world. And that's how much AA impressed him, when he saw the devotion that we had, the commitment that we had, and how many miracles took place in the basement, compared to the number of miracles that took place upstairs. And it wasn't me, but there were old…

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