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And it is with great pleasure that I introduce Sarah from Big Book Magic.

Tonight she is doing Clean House.

Hi, everybody. Magic, tonight she's doing Clean House. Hi everybody, I'm Sarah. I'm Alcoholic.

How's Sarah?

It's really good to be back here.

The crowd's a lot bigger tonight because there isn't a major sports event, I don't think.

Yeah, last week was really cool. I had the expectation that I was going to come here and I was going to kind of do like a clean, like walk through of all the steps.

And then after a conversation with my sponsor, I thought it would be better to just kind of focus on what my current experience is really, you know, with the idea of trusting God, with cleaning house,

and then with helping others.

So, you know, we talked a lot about God reliance last week.

And my experience was that I couldn't have any reliance on God until I had done the cleaning house part to gain access,

you know, because I remember the day that I realized that a belief in God really didn't matter

at all in Alcoholics Anonymous. It's not a program about believing in God or even understanding

God or whatever.

If a belief in a higher power was sufficient to keep me sober, there would not be priests or clergyman NAA.

You know, people who have believed in God their whole life find that they can't control

their drinking, they can't not start to drink, and they can't find the power that they

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