ESH: Kent C from Sandusky Ohio

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Kent C from Sandusky Ohio is speaking at the 2014 Founders Day celebration, he is a bit of a circuit speaker and is still around speaking and leading workshops all over the country. I have featured Kent a few times on the podcast if you would like to hear more from him. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Events: I just added a number of new events to the calendar so if you will be in Arizona, California, New Zealand, Australia, Washington, or Las Vegas take a look. 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 2300+ 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.
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:24.6	Well I love most about AA and before I'm done you're going to know I love everything
0:31.2	about AA.
0:32.2	It's a simplicity of it, our co-founder Dr. Bob in his last talk in 1950 reminded us of
0:38.4	the simplicity of our program and what he said to us as he left us was this, let's not
0:44.2	loss it up with forwarding and complex as the things that interest you to the scientific
0:49.2	mind that have little to do with our actual AA work.
0:54.2	There's a line into book that bottom lies the simplicity of AA for me and it's in the
0:58.8	chapter working with others and what it says is simply this, remind the prospect that
1:03.3	his recovery is not dependent upon people, it is dependent upon his relationship with
1:08.1	God.
1:09.1	The single most important fact in my life but I stand here today and the only reason I'm
1:14.1	standing here or anywhere else today is that I got a power in my life that I choose to
1:19.0	call God who does for me one day at a time what I could never do for myself.
1:23.3	If I had the power if we'd drink it on my own I'd have never come to AA and why should
1:27.8	I?
1:28.8	I establish and grow in that relationship through living, not memorizing, analyzing or discussing
1:36.2	but through living to the best of my ability which is never perfect, the 12 steps of
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