Liz — Blackstone Meeting (1960s)

RS-G030 · CLASSIC ERA · AA · 1960S

Liz

Blackstone Meeting · 29 Palms, CA
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SpeakerLiz
EventBlackstone Meeting
Location29 Palms, CA
Year1960s
EraClassic Era
FellowshipAA
Duration59:20
RS NumberRS-G030
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29 Palms, California. I'm Richard, made this talk in Blackstone, Virginia in 1960. And this is Charlie Mike T. Ed McKinney talking to you. Hope you're feeling well, Horace, and keep smiling. Our first speaker tonight has come 2,422 miles to talk to us here in Blackstone. And I know that we all appreciate it. My speaker is from 29 Palms, California. She, as most of you know, has published a book. And she tells me that through this book she has talked or she has received from churches and schools and colleges requests to talk at these different places from people who have read this book. In the month of October, I am informed that our speaker has 33 engagements. I think that's quite a task. So I know she's going to be busy during the month of October, so I do not wish to take any more of her time. It is with a great deal of pleasure and a privilege to me to introduce and present to you our speaker of the evening, Liz. I don't know that I'm just mad about all these introductions. I don't know that I'm just crazy about Tom making his announcement now on the basis that he might not get a chance afterwards. What does that mean? What's going to happen to me afterwards? I am always joyous to speak to AA. In the first place, you're my kin. But the second place, when I go to churches, schools, colleges to talk, the pitch is always the same. We only have one thing to say, and so when you're God-centered and sober, that's what you say. But this group, I don't need to talk about miracles, because every seat here is occupied by one. When I go to churches and talk, they think that a miracle is something that happened 2,000 years ago. Lazarus, for instance, was raised from the dead. They don't know anything about Dirk Bahanna being raised from the dead. They don't know about the blind being healed 2,000 years ago. They don't know anything about the moral and spiritual and mental blindness that I had. I understand that we're not, at these meetings, supposed to go back too much. If this mic trembles, it's because I'm trembling. We're not supposed to go back too much in our pitch as to what we were like. I won't give…

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