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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Topic: Lack of Power That Was Our Dilemma

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Donna J leads this meeting of the Bronx Big Book Study Friday Night Workshop Series on the topic of, Lack of Power That Was Our Dilemma. This was from October of 2021 and the Q& A mentioned at the end was not included with the recording. Zoom Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1800+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast

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format.

0:12.8

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0:22.4

We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.

0:27.6

Good evening everyone.

0:29.5

I am Don and I am a recovered alcoholic and Matt, thank you so very much for that warm welcome.

0:38.2

You know, when Matt asked me, the service side of me said, sure, I'd be glad to be the speaker

0:48.0

for the Friday night speaker series and then that other voice that sounds just like me

0:52.5

started to say, well, what do you, can you do this?

0:56.0

I mean, that voice always tells me what I can't do.

1:01.7

But I've learned not to listen to it and I sat with what it was that I wanted to share.

1:08.8

And it's interesting because every time I start, I start off kind of shaky until I can

1:14.7

get into my groove with God.

1:16.9

And so I thought about what it was that I wanted to talk about and what I am still facing

1:22.6

with after 21 years of picking up the spiritual tools that relate at my feet, lack of power.

1:29.9

Now the thing that's interesting was the word dilemma really stuck out for me when I

1:36.9

decided that this was going to be what I wanted to share on.

1:40.6

And on page 45 in We Agnostics, it says, lack of power, that was our dilemma.

1:49.0

We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a power greater than

1:53.6

ourselves.

1:54.6

Obviously, I'm going to get back to the obviously piece.

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