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Hi everybody, my name is Chris.

I'm an alcoholic.

You know, being up here in the pulpit has kind of inspired me and I've 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

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 will pack me into a car and drove me uptown to go to kindergarten.

You know, it was my first exposure being thrust into a group of a group of people my age for one reason or another and I remember 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 you know and I'm

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