ESH: Esther R sober in 1954 speaking in 1970

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🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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I reached back into the archives for this one, we have Esther R from Cleveland Ohio, sober 16 years at the time of this speak at the Oklahoma State Conference held in Tulsa Oklahoma in May of 1970. Some of these older recordings can be a bit harsh but this one cleaned up nicely. 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 1700+ 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
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:28.2	Hi!
0:32.2	Uh, no you are not beautiful people because you're really only in my dream and I have terrible dreams.
0:41.2	I am very, very grateful to the committee that was generous and kind enough to invite me here to share my experience face and hope.
0:52.2	I am very, very gratified to be here in the health of a woman to help you celebrate your 29th anniversary of alpha-holic synonymous here in the state of a woman.
1:05.2	Or it's always our inadequate for me to express feelings.
1:11.2	But I have discovered a rule of conduct for myself that enables me to do what I hope to do and that is to
1:21.2	stay in words, how I would like what I drive, what happens, and what I've been doing this December.
1:31.2	The rule of conduct is never start off expressing gratitude.
1:35.2	If I do, I'll fall like a baby and everybody will be fit and I won't say anything anyway.
1:43.2	Uh, Clark was very generous with himself.
1:47.2	He made himself available and we did share time together.
1:52.2	And this is part of the deck that I owe to the world.
1:56.2	I was born in 1926.
2:01.2	And I accepted all that the world had to offer me and I was incapable of doing anything really constructive with it.
2:09.2	And it was not until October 13th, 1954, in my total surrender, in my failure to die, that I was given my rebirth and I recognized that I owed something.
2:27.2	Not only did I owe to my God, the acceptance of the gift that he had given me to come into alpha-holic synonymous, I owed to the world.
2:38.2	For the face that I've taken up on this earth, but I also owe to man a death that I can never repay.
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