What You’re Looking For, You’re Looking With - AA Speaker - Ed M.

Ed learned from Chuck C. that what we came to AA looking for, we were already looking with.

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Ed M., sober since January 5, 1971, leads a funny, blunt, and deeply spiritual Mother’s Day retreat on alcoholism, emotional maturity, spiritual sobriety, and living the Twelve Steps in every area of life. He shares his own story of early drinking, violence, resentment, faith, amends, forgiveness, ministry, family pain, and the surprising life AA opened up for him, then moves into a practical look at powerlessness, surrender, inventory, anger, defects of character, and the need to keep applying the program beyond alcohol alone. With stories about Big John, Clancy, Chuck C., treatment-center confusion, carrying the message through tapes, forgiving the men involved in his father’s murder, and learning to stop living from old “ones,” Ed keeps returning to the same simple point: the answer was never missing, but the application has to become real.

Parts 1-3 of Ed M. from Davenport, IA speaking at a Mothers Day Retreat - 2006

Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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