Jeff G. — Cedar River Roundup (2018)

RS-G053 · MODERN ERA · AA · 2018

Jeff G.

Cedar River Roundup · Cedar Rapids, IA
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SpeakerJeff G.
EventCedar River Roundup
LocationCedar Rapids, IA
Year2018
EraModern Era
FellowshipAA
Duration1:10:46
RS NumberRS-G053
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I'm Jeff, and I'm an alcoholic, and my home group is Smoking Gun of Dallas, Texas, which as of March 1st, we'll be meeting at 6.30. I'm not going to give the address because I don't know it, but I just know we'll be meeting at 6.30. In some ways, this is the easiest spot to speak of the weekend. You guys have filled me up and lifted me up and lifted me up, and now I just got to crash land the plane, and we all get to go home. I asked Brian a question. It was either last night or this morning. We talk about the Sunday morning speaker being the spiritual speaker. Not to suggest at all, and I said, do you think that actually means something? Should that mean something different? Is there a significance to that? He gave me his answer. And so, God, I don't know, I usually have a zip code that I want to end up in by the time I finish, but I don't know where to start other than I am an alcoholic, and I've earned that label, and I know what it means to be that. I was joking around. You know, when I came to Alcoholics Anonymous, my world was about 19 people wide, and it was about 20 feet long and 15 feet wide, and it had a coffee pot and a door surrounded by stained glass that let you in, and that was the Alcoholics Anonymous I knew, and it was a wonderful thing. And then somebody's like, hey, have you been to the noon meeting across town? And then AA turned into two rooms with two sets of people. And I've been doing this for a while, and I hope your experience is the same, and I'm a guy who's always wanted more no matter what I did, and I think my story illustrates that, and now this room full of 19 people has turned into this global family and people all over the place and friends here and warm weekends out of town, and it seems like I've been sentenced to a life, I put this on Facebook one time, I said, I think I've been sentenced to a life to where I have to read the same book over and over and over forever. And when I'm not doing that, it usually seems…

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