Sandy B.
| Speaker | Sandy B. |
| Event | The Spiritual Life Is Not a Theory — Jekyll Island (Disc 1) |
| Location | Jekyll Island, GA |
| Year | 2001 |
| Era | Modern Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 1:05:08 |
| RS Number | RS-G144 |
Transcript
Thank you. Thank you very much. Will I bring the mic over? There we go. Oh boy. Good morning, everybody. My name is Sandy Beach, and I'm an alcoholic. Good morning. I asked Lee to set it up this way because I can stand for 45 minutes, but I couldn't stand all morning, I can tell you that. So if you want to change seats and come over here or whatever, be my guest. Let's see. My sobriety date is December 7, 1964. And my home group is the Saturday Night Fever Group in Tampa, Florida. And it's a great group, just like your group is. Let me tell you what I have semi in mind, because I never have anything really in mind when I start these things. But thinking about it last night, what I'm going to do is just give two talks. Just like you're attending an AA talk. This is not a workshop or anything like that. There's going to be a lot of thoughts that I have about spirituality and AA. And, of course, these are my own personal opinion. If I say anything that is something that your sponsor would disagree with, then listen to your sponsor. I mean, this is just my experience with spirituality and Alcoholics Anonymous and our 12 steps. And so what I plan on doing is do two sessions, and we'll take about an hour and 15 minutes, something like that. And then it won't run into the afternoon, and we'll be through by lunch. And we'll take a 15-minute break in between and get our juices churning again. It's awful hard to sit that long, so that's what I have in mind. And the starting point that I was going to take was, I don't know why. Oh, no, I know what I want to do before I start that. I didn't get to finish my story with Larry last night. Everybody has a Franklin Williams story, and I wanted to share mine. The first time I met Franklin, Larry was talking about Franklin from Olive Branch, Mississippi, last night. What a great guy. So anyway, I was invited to talk. This was probably 25 years ago. I was talking in Hot Springs, Arkansas at some roundup there. And Franklin was introducing me. So we got to meet each other, and he seemed very nice at the time….
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