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So we make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. Now this is one of the things that we're going to be spending some time on. This is the most fantastic thing on the face of the earth. There is nothing that will compare with this thing that happens to us when we do this. Not when we read it, when we do it. To abandon ourselves completely to this simple program. We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.

I don't suppose that there's a man in this room that analyzed himself and decided to turn himself in to Alcoholics Anonymous. I don't believe there's one of you in the whole bunch that did that.

If there had been any way under Heaven for me to remain in left field, Id still be out there. We are not the kind of people that run around surrendering on every other street corner. That isnt our way of doing things. Weve lost the battle of life and were nuts and have to have help. I told you a little bit ago that the greatest single event in my life, up until now, and I'm seventy-two years old, was when the bottle killed me in January of ' When I got home, I read it.

I was four sheets to the wind when I read it, and I suspect I thought it was real good for you people that needed it. I imagine I did. But five years later I "came to" after a four week blackout.

My last drunk started on the Friday before Christmas, , and I "came to" sometime after the middle of January ' But during that four weeks the thing that had stopped me was burned out. And I accepted the fact that everything dear to me in life was gone, and should be gone, and that I was not entitled to have it back. That was including my wife and my kids and my home and my job and my health and my sanity and my money. It was all gone and I wasn't entitled to have it back.

I knew I was going to die, because I'd come within an ace of it the next-to-the-last time out. I'd fallen over on my face in the kitchen, turned blue, and they had to get the oxygen squad to wake me up. The doctor that was with them told me, after I "came to", that to all intents and purposes I was dead, that they'd had a hell of a time bringing me back, and that nobody would ever be able to bring me back again under those circumstances.

And, said he, "If I were you, I wouldn't do that any more! But I did it again. So I knew I was going to die, and I accepted that, too. But I didn't want to die with a record. Now I want you to listen to this, because this is a little bit different than a lot of things that happened. I didn't even want sobriety for myself, because I knew I was going to die. I didn't want anything for me, but I didn't want to die with a record.

I didn't want Mrs. In the depths of this thing, I remembered that I'd read the article in the Saturday Evening Post, and the only two things I remembered about it was that drunks help drunks and didn't drink, and they called it Alcoholics Anonymous.

And I said to myself, "If I ever live to get out of this bed, I will find Alcoholics Anonymous. There was no more sanity. I was sick unto death, drunk and insane, and I had a lot of dying to do.

From the moment of commitment until right now I've never had a drink or pill. This is one of the reasons I believe so completely and totally that there is only one road block between me and you and me and God, and that's the human ego. The only road block there is. Because, you see, I sit in the same chair today that I sat in for ten years in Hell.

The same chair, and I've sat in it for twenty-nine years in Heaven. Nothing happened to the chair. Nothing happened to my wife. Nothing happened to the kids.

Something happened to me, and it proves that Heaven was always in that chair. I was in Hell, but Heaven was always in that chair. Nothing happened to that chair, and I'm still in it, still in Heaven. That's the reason these statements are so very, very, positive. To abandon ourselves completely, to let go absolutely, it says.

And to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. Now this is the problem. Something has to happen that we get rid of the obsession of the mind, and that's what this program of ours is all about.

The American Medical Society We have some of its most illumined members right here at this retreat. But they cannot tell us how not to take the next slug. They can't tell us how. That's what this book' is all about, to tell us how to get rid of the obsessions of the mind that cause us to drink. That's what this whole program is all about. To rid us of the obsessions of the mind that cause us to drink. Now why am I not drunk tonight? That's a good question!

I'm a tongue-chewin', babblin' idiot drunk. Why am I not drunk tonight? This is Friday. Thursday night's kick-off night, right? You start oiling the machinery Thursday, you get in high gear on Friday, you pay Saturday, right? Sober up Sunday, taper off so you can go to work Monday. Some Sundays you taper off, so you can go to work some Mondays. Because I have the thing I was looking for in the bottle, and that's the only reason I'm not drunk. That's the only reason I'm not drunk.

I have the thing I was looking for in the bottle. Now what is the thing? That king-size hurt is gone. You know the king-size hurt. The kids call it that hole in their guts when theyre standing on the street corner and the winds blowing through. That's what the kids call it. When I first heard them say that, I said they've been to a meeting some place, they heard that. They stole it from somebody that But that ain't right.

I learned that that ain't right. They were the guys that coined it, standing on the street comer with the big hole in their guts and the wind blowin' through. The Big Hurt - thats gone. Im not fighting me, or you, or life, or God or the devil. Im at peace with me and with you and with my very own God. Thats the only reason Im not drunk. When I say I am an alcoholic, it means this: that I cannot live and drink, and of myself I cannot keep from drinking.

And that's just as true right now as it was thirty years ago. Step One says we admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable by us. I've looked all the way through our book and through the manuscript from which it was written and through the most recent book that was printed, and there's nothing in any one of them that says that if I'm sober for ten or twelve r twenty-nine years, my life will become manageable by me.

It doesn't say that - I looked - it's not in here! And furthermore, there's nothing in my experience in twenty-nine years that would indicate that my life will ever be manageable by me again. And you might say, How do you know?

Ive got the simplest rule in the world: Ive never had it so good. This is, the only good life I've ever known, the only easy life that's ever been mine in my entire lifetime. And I've got twenty-nine years to look over sober without a drink or pill, twenty-five years drunk or drinking, and nineteen years before that.

And this is the only good life I've ever known, the only easy life that's ever been mine. So I highly recommend it. This is the way to get rid of the obsessions of the mind. Here are the steps we took, We're sober. Now don't say, "Here are the steps we read, or heard read, or learned by heart. Don't say, "Here are the steps we interpreted. Don't say, "Here are the steps we conned God into taking for us.

There was one guy out in the valley for a while that was selling interpretations of the steps, and teaching interpretations of the steps, and then he got drunk! His measures went down the rat hole. It doesn't say that. It says "Here are the steps we took We have to have help and we cant get help until we recognize the need for it. The first three steps are decisions. The fourth and fifth are action steps.

We "made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. We're more apt to do it right if we're writing. It takes a little longer, but it's good for us, so we write it. Now it's a moral inventory, so we don't have to write every time we turned left when we should have turned right.

It doesn't mean that we have to put down everything we ever stole, or every lie we told, or every time we got drunk. That is not what it means. It means to write down enough so that we can see the motivation for what we have done up until now. The motivating force in our lives. Of course if we want to get real simple, the whole thing will boil down to obsessions of the mind, which is the ego.

Every one of them will boil down to trying to satisfy the human ego, which cannot be done. So we write it down and then we share it. We share it with God, ourselves, and another human being. That other human being is the thing that really sets us up for the kill. I can admit to God and to myself while hidden in the privy!

Nobody knows but me and God. But if I have to spread this dirty linen out before another human being, if Ive got any ego left after that, I havent done it!

Thats the ego buster. So we've written it and shared it and now we become willing to give it away, and we give it away. Now I find people all over the world beating their brains out trying to get rid of the obsessions of the mind, their defects of character. I bet you thereve been a million hours spent in arguing over why Step Six says " There's supposed to be a difference! I asked Bill, and he said, "I don't know, I think I didn't want to end two lines right next to each other with the same words.

They mean the same thing. The main thing is that we become willing to give them away, and we give them away. If we could have done away with our defects of character, we would have done it before we came here. I wasn't just jumpin' up and kickin' my heels together, saying, "Goodie, goodie, I get to go to Alcoholics Anonymous! She's ninety-six and she doesn't believe it yet! I say, "I've had twenty-nine years without a drink", and she Then we have two more steps in the first ten, two of the greatest ones left.

The most immediately effective steps in the whole program are Eight and Nine. We "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Do it quick. The weight of the world is removed from your shoulders when you honestly take care of Eight and Nine.

I'm going to tell you this little story, and it won't take long. Many of you have heard it, but it curls my hair yet. About ten years ago, I got a call on Friday night from a guy in Whittier, and he said, "Chuck, I'm sittin' here with a six-gun in my lap, and I'm going to blow my brains out. But Jim says, 'Don't shoot yourself until you've talked to Chuck C.

So what have you got to say? I'm talking tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night, but Monday night's open. So if you want to see me, come down Monday night. But if you don't, blow your brains out. And at Monday evening the doorbell rang, and in came my boy. Now let me tell you a little story within a story. Sybil was four-teen years in our Central Office, and Jim was a compulsive gambler, and he started Gamblers Anonymous and wrote their book.

He'd already done that, and then he became an alcoholic, and he called me one time and said, "Come and get me. And he got sober. Now, Jim is losing his eyesight, and he's a sick man, but he's sober. And I talked with him on the phone just the other day, and he's pretty happy. Anyway, Jim had told this guy he not only was an alcoholic, but he was a compulsive gambler.

And Jim had told him to talk to me before he blew his brains out. Well, here he was. And we started talking. At in the morning we were right where we are now, at Steps Eight and Nine, and I was telling this monkey, ''Now here's what you've got to do.

You lost a lot of money that you didn't have. And he had lost it to professional gamblers. And that ain't a very healthy situation; it don't do much for longevity. You gotta go to these people and say, 'Look, I'm not the big shot I would have had you believe.

I'm an alcoholic, and I've found a way to live that might let me live one day at a time without a drink for the rest of my life. And Now, I admit the debt. I owe you the money, and I'll pay you as soon as I can, but I ain't got no money now.

You won't have suicide on your mind! And he's walking the streets a free man, he was laughing right over the hill ever since he left me, and he never quit. He paid them off, nobody killed him. It's a wonder, these things. So if you haven't done Steps Eight and Nine, do them. The weight of the world goes right off your back when you do them.

Now, to finish up. Alcoholism cuts across our society from the highest to lowest. We are peoples of all professions, all states of poverty and riches, priests and preachers, from all denominations. We have world scholars amongst us, and bankers. Not one would have come here if they could have stayed out.

We have a problem that you and I cannot solve. We have to have help. And those first nine steps will roll away the stones, because those are the surrender steps. The surrender steps. Surrender is the thing that opens the door that allows us to get the help; because God, himself, cannot help us until we will allow it.

The recognition of the need for help and the turning of our will and our lives over to the care of God, and clearing away of the wreckage of the past is the beginning of victory.

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