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Thank you very much. Hello, my name is Terry, and I'm an alcoholic.

And I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Terry.

And I welcome everybody here.

I was one of the last ones here. I guess everybody comes from the coast.

But everybody came from bed you got you met a semi across the road for three hours anyway.

You don't want to know about all that stuff.

This, a lot of you are veterans of retreats and some of you aren't I guess. I just want to say a word about a retreat. I think it's a time, it's not a workshop or a lecture series, it's a time

to get in touch with God's gift. See, we're already being drawn into a deep spiritual awakening, and there's a lot of experience

and deep spiritual change in everybody in this room right now.

And if we had the right kind of facilitator,

we could write the big book.

Could.

I mean, the the ammunition here. If we could discern our own experience

well enough we could put our finger on the authentic and what's really touched

our heart in a healthy way and be able to tell the difference

between that and what isn't so genuine and deep.

But it's all here, all the good deep stuff is here.

And what happens as we go along is that God's gift tends to get obscured

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