Topic: Honesty and Humor - Father John Doe

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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I had an email from Maxinne in Scotland yesterday asking if I had any recordings of Father John Doe and as it turns out I have quite a few. So, I took 2 separate speaks he did (I have no idea where or when they were recorded) and used them to create this episode. The first topic he shares on is honesty and the second is humor, he jumps right into both of these and I added a brief click track between the subjects to note the topic change. If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/event 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 2500+ 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 Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	What is the one most important factor
0:31.4	in attaining and maintaining sobriety? factor in
0:35.0	a obtaining sobriety, that factor again, in my opinion, is honesty.
0:40.0	For honesty is the difference between sobriety and slipping.
0:47.0	It is the difference between happiness and unhappiness.
0:52.0	It is the difference between... happiness and after 14 years of experience with thousands upon thousands of members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1:08.0	I am convinced that we could actually reduce the whole program to that one word honesty.
1:17.0	For this reason the only prayer that is used at the retreats that I give is the following.
1:27.0	Oh God grant us the grace to see ourselves as you see us,
1:32.0	that knowing ourselves and thy will, we shall be unable to
1:38.4	carry it out in our daily lives. In other words, asking simply for the grace to be honest. Now we should have
1:49.1	realized this many years ago. Remember in school we were told honesty is the best policy, but we didn't
1:59.7	believe it didn't we. First there was the little white lies and then some more bigger white
2:07.0	lies and then into the black lies to get out of the white lies and then more black lies to get out of the white lies. And then more black lies to get out of the lies we told, to get out of the lies we told,
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