Good morning everybody, my name is Sandy Beach and I'm an alcoholic and it's a pleasure having Harry up here and tomorrow we got Bill when Jerry and I are doing the same thing and after you heard Jerry this morning you know how why I'm looking forward to tomorrow so much just to be part of this thing we've done one other time we did a retreat together and it just fit we're always in harmony and it's really a it's a privilege to experience that kind of stuff. On the one hand talking about the power of forgiveness it could be a fairly simple topic but the more I think about it it there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. It is much more important in our program than we give it credit for it really needs to be examined a lot more deeply in our own personal lives and I think before I came to AEA I had heard the word and I think I understood what it meant but I was only concerned with people forgiving me that was the main function of the word forgiven why don't you just forgive me because as an alcoholic I'm constantly screwing up and so you could see my perspective on that was leaving out the real value of the word it really isn't that big a deal to be forgiven compared to to forgive that's where the real power is and of course I knew none of that and I think I'd been sober about four or five months and my sponsor Bill and I were still in the Marine Corps down at Quantico Virginia and some guy that I had loaned $30 to got transferred and didn't pay me back and I wouldn't stop talking about it I mean I just was on Bill's case all the time I said I'm gonna get a freaking lawyer I mean that guy what kind of a friend is that I'm just going on and on about this and finally he says why don't you just forgive him and I went are you kidding this isn't like he was a half hour late to go to the ballgame or something this is freaking $30 this is not this is not chicken feed stuff I can see you could forgive you know some little slight or so but…