Join Joe McDonald as he reads from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this session, Joe discusses the power of sharing both the experience of hopelessness and the solution that comes from a spiritual awakening.

“I can talk to them about hopelessness because I know of hopelessness. And I can talk to you about a solution because I’m inhabited by one. In fact, the solution that inhabits me has directed me to you. And my job, if you’ll have it, is to wake up to that fact. Yes. So you will soon have your friend admitting he has many if not all the traits of an alcoholic. So it’s not always an all-spiritual conversation, is it? Because we meet them and they’re pretty tore up. And we talk about all kinds of worldly discomfort.”

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