Honest but Not Accurate — I Sometimes Suffer from a Past That Never Actually Happened – Steve L.
About This Speaker Tape
Steve L. opens as a grateful guest speaker, telling the room his home group has cut him off so he'll travel anywhere to share. He frames gratitude as both a feeling and an action, saying he hopes nobody can tell whether he feels grateful by how he acts — because he wants to act grateful even on days when the feeling isn't there.
He sets aside the traditional what-I-was-like / what-happened / what-it's-like-now structure and tells the room he's honest but not always accurate. He admits he is often honestly mistaken and sometimes suffers from a past that never actually happened. What he shares is the experience of what his life felt like, through the prism of his perception.
He names the alcoholic's disease of perception directly — what he was seeing was often not what was happening — and describes a spiritual experience as being awake, beginning to see his life both as he's in it today and looking back. He says AA has given him all the information already; the real work is turning information into application that produces transformation by removing what blocks him from a Higher Power.
He closes the opening with a story about flying into Myrtle Beach for a conference, trying to meet a host he'd only spoken to on the phone, both of them insisting they were standing at baggage carousel six and neither able to find the other.
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