Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker meetings and workshops in podcast format.

We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual

basket.

We hope you enjoyed the podcast.

Have a great day.

Everyone, my name is Myra, and I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, my name is Myra, and it's an honor to be a part of this conference and to know all

of you guys, So thank you.

So what's kind of been on my heart since,

or what's just kept coming up,

which to me is the intuitive thought of what to talk about,

and these two, like calamity with serenity,

that's what keeps coming up to me.

And I've heard it mentioned a couple times throughout the weekend.

You know what it says, we are in the world to play the role he assigns.

Just to the extent that we do as we think he would have us and humbly rely on him,

does he enable us to match calamity with serenity?

And calamity means an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress, a disaster.

I mean, I was calamity.

But like everything was, like anything that happened in my life while I was drinking was like it was a calamity.

It was just like I am very emotional and I overreact in sobriety.

So imagine before like everything was just like I would crumble and fall apart and not know how to deal and I didn't.

...