With nothing more, I give you Bill J. of Raleigh, North Carolina. Thank you, Bob, very much. I wish I had the ability to express my appreciation for being at this wonderful, lovely spot and with you lovely people this weekend. God has certainly been wonderful to me. Last weekend it was our 11th step retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains and this weather and everything is just so wonderful and you feel so close to God here and it's really terrific. I don't know how long it's going to be before this nervousness leaves me. I don't understand it. I'm here with people who love me and understand me the best in the world. I get nervous and yet we pretend not to be. A little while ago a lady asked me, are you nervous before your talk? I said, no, certainly not. Why do you ask? She said, well, I wondered what you were doing in the lady's restaurant. You're a wonderful crowd. I was awake to make a talk or a lead as some people call it and this hard-nosed old sponsor of mine at home, one of them. I had many sponsors. I needed them. He sent me a telegram and it just said simply this. Speak the prophet. Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord. And he went on further to say, but we drunks say, O Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff and nudge me when I've said enough. So I shall try to conform to this sage advice. My name is Bill Johnston and I'm an alcoholic. I'm a member of the Big Book Group of Alcoholics Anonymous in Raleigh, North Carolina. But because God loves me very much and this program works in my life, I'm sober tonight. They say that there are no magic wands in AA. I refute this very emphatically because three wonders of this world exist in my life. First, the greatest wonder is that I am sober. And the second is that I stayed sober. And the third is that I am happy and comfortable in this sobriety. Now, this was not always true. When I finally found my little niche in AA and became reconciled to the fact that I would, one day at a time, never drink anymore, I reflected rather quickly…