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Old 11-24-2008, 06:50 PM
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Tommyh
It`s ok to stay sober
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Central NC
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I`m sure you did fine and I would have loved to heard it.
I usually have to talk about 12-20 times a year around these parts.It seems to come in spurts.I usually do say a prayer first,God,please keep me out of the way so I can carry your message of Alcoholics Anonymous.Geez,i`m supossed to go talk twice in the next 4 weeks now that I think bout it..

I love drunk a logs because they give a newcomer a chance to relate.Thats what happened to me when I was new,I related to a little Grey haired lady and I picked up my last white chip then.She became a good friend and died last yr with many yrs of good sobriety.Anyway,I usually tell a few short drinking jokes at the start , it seems to help ease the nervousness and looses up everyone.I do my story a tad bit different than I used to.
Since alcoholism is a family illness and since I used to think my drinking did not effect anyone but me,I include a few things about how my drinking affected myself and family.They are part of my story,from the drunk family fights to the separations to the ala non my wife first attended and how she quit enabling me,and what effect it had.. .I usually tell about my bottom and then my experience with sponsorship,and the first 5 steps,because that is where I had the most trouble,but got the most relief.Hopefully I will have some time left to share what my sober life and family is like today ...I tell my story but my family is included in it a little bit.The book gives us 2 sets of directions,the 2nd being to tell how we established out relationship with God,and those first 5 steps did excaly that for me.
I have always heard there are 3 kinds of talks
the one we wanted to give
the one we gave
the one we wished we would have gave..

anyway,when it is over,I leave it there at the podium...

hang in there,I`m sure you will do fine the next time they tag you too
keep carrying the message!
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