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Hi everybody, I'm Jeanette MacKallick.

And I am sober today because I've got a sponsorship my sobriety date is August 28th of 1988

and for that I literally owe you my life. It was funny when we prayed before the meeting.

I have to admit I go, God, how did he know about that?

Because I am. I am so wicked full of myself. I can't see straight sometimes. So thanks for that.

I always pray and ask God to use me as an instrument of His mercy as peace and of as well.

To just speak in me and through me, you know, because I know with that I will be okay.

Just having so the desire, you know, I don't need much more than else.

Everything else comes out of my experience of course.

And so I was a bit tardy. Of course it was in the bathroom on my knees because that's where I'm more comfortable in prayer.

But I love the power of the group and no one that we're all united because I'll tell you what.

I was as completely disconnected from the human race as you could possibly get.

I got a sure you Rachel that half the guys in this group did not get here looking this good.

And I really, and I don't know that because I'm only living here for like six weeks.

But I promise you. I come from a group called synonymous where serious group pride.

I got sober in Hannah Montana and it's in the book group.

And I watched them in come bright shining happy, you know, from a distance they were resembling men.

And then as time went on, they really became men.

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