Workshop: Came To Believe (Part 1 of 3)

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

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Dave M from Sidcup UK talks about speaking to a newcomer about the big book in part one of a 3 part Came to Believe workshop held in London UK in Dec of 2011. Part 1 of 3 Email: [email protected] 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 1500+ 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 and
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:21.7	basket.
0:22.7	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	Thanks, Becky, my name is Dave, I'm an alcoholic, and I'll end now, actually, you get around
0:34.3	and I'm close at the beginning, that's downhill from now, I guess, but the thanks for asking
0:39.9	me, I'm pleased to be here, and I'm pleased, and I'm very grateful to be clean and sober
0:43.4	today.
0:44.4	It's always a pleasure to be asked to do any kind of service in AA, and if it's within
0:49.5	my power to do what I'm asked to do, I will do that.
0:55.0	I've found the benefits of AA in my life over the years I've been sober, to be immense,
1:04.2	really.
1:05.2	What it provides me with today, I haven't had a drink for 13 years, I don't think necessarily
1:10.2	I'm going to have a drink today, but what it provides me with is a perfect vehicle to
1:14.6	get out self.
1:15.6	I can come here and AA gives me a vehicle or structure in my life to be able to try and
1:22.6	help somebody else, and as a result of that, ease my self-centredness, and it seems
1:28.5	to work perfectly as that vehicle, in the years I've been coming, I've found no good reason
1:35.9	to leave.
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