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Hi everybody, my name is Chris, I'm an alcoholic.

Being up here in the pulpit has kind of inspired me, and I've learned to follow my intuition

on these things, so instead of talking for an hour about emotional sobriety, I'm going

to read some stories from this Bible for children.

Well, maybe not.

Okay, let me think, emotional sobriety, I got to go way back in my experience to be able

to really paint a decent picture of this.

Some of my earliest recollections were recollections of self-centered fear.

As a child, I seemed to be anxious, nervous, and high-strung a little bit more than normally

you would expect from a child.

I remember the time that my mother packed me into a car and drove me uptown to go to kindergarten.

It was my first exposure being thrust into a group of people my age for one reason or

another.

I remember her letting me out of the car, and I'm standing up on a hill, and I'm looking

down at these kids, and they're down there right outside the kindergarten, and they're

running around, and they're playing, and they're kicking ball, and they're playing tag,

and they're laughing, and they're already friends, and I'm standing up on the hill looking

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