ESH: Johnny H - 47 Years

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Bellflower Big Book Group in Belflower California is the home group of Johnny H who was sober for 47 years at the time of this share in 2007, he is telling his story at the West Portland Group. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are in the Pennsylvania area July 14th, The Annual Pennsylvania State Convention of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous will feature speakers, panels, workshops, fellowship events and fun! https://scast.us/penn AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2200+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.9	Hi everybody, my name's Johnny and I'm an alcoholic, I'm glad to be here tonight, I'm glad
0:35.0	to be sober and I'm glad to be in a meeting about how it's not for the time of my life.
0:40.5	I want to thank Dave or the committee or whoever is responsible for extending the privilege
0:44.4	of me participating in an alcoholic's anonymous meeting.
0:49.2	It's my opinion that hope it always remains that there's some type of a privilege to be allowed
0:54.8	to come and sit in these rooms.
0:57.6	I hope I don't ever get it through my sick head that I have a right to everything that
1:01.1	goes on an alcoholic's anonymous, just because I was lucky enough to stumble into a room
1:06.0	and get sober and stay that way.
1:09.0	The reason I can say it is because everything that's good and decent in my life today is
1:14.6	the byproduct of it.
1:22.0	Had people come down the aisle to ask me before, never with a basket full of money, that's
1:35.8	everything that's good and decent in my life, was that what I was going to say, maybe
1:39.2	I'd start all over again.
1:42.6	It is a byproduct of the God I discovered sitting in meetings about how it's not this.
1:48.2	I have no reason or no rhyme or no particular idea why I've been given the gift of sobriety.
2:01.6	It's not because I'm deserving of it.
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