Steps 10 and 11 at the Fellowship of the Spirit in Queens, NY

Seven done again. Thanks a lot and I hope we will Good hopes from you guys and I'll give you to Hector.

Good morning, everybody. My name is Hector. I'm a real alcoholic. Yes, I am.

I, I want to thank also myself, Rick and Bart for putting this together, you know, bringing all this kindred spirits who love the book, who love Alcoholics Anonymous and who love each other. I also want to thank the two gentlemen from Texas and also Peter, you know, I learned a lot from them and they're wonderful, wonderful messengers of, you know, the book, the program and God.

So let's give all these people around the applause.

I want to Mike asked me to make this a little announcement. I'm staying in Manhattan for a week and I'm speaking in New Jersey, NJ, Wednesday, August 6. So if you want to know where there are pamphlets right there. OK, OK. I'm supposed to do steps 10 and 11 and I like to start the the meeting with the meditation and I'm going to say a prayer.

OK, so if you can drop the dishes and the things and relax and your.

Yeah, just let go. Yes, If you feel like it, close your eyes, relax your body

and I'm going to lead us in a meditation and a prayer. This is a prayer that I do before I do every workshop.

How wonderful it is to know and to take a moment, just a moment, and pause to go within

and to let go for the past and the future

and to concentrate in the now where God is.

And as I turn within, I know that every person here turns within to the same underlying power.

This indwelling passions

is our common denominator.

I lovingly call this power God.

I know that God is my life and I know that this force, so they're all good, is the true identity of everybody here.

We're all one and the same,

and I know that this workshop is a divine idea and the mind of God. That the compelling activity of the universe brought us together,

that this morning there's good loving work for us to do together.

With great joy, my heart

and bless. I bless and give thanks for the activities about to take place, fully knowing that these silver brothers and sisters are God's mouth pieces expressing God's love, God's wisdom, God's compassion, with God's perfect clarity and gentleness.

I know that I don't make it happen. We don't make it happen. We just make it welcome.

I declare this beautiful workshop

a safe and sacred place,

and we stay in silence, inviting the presence.

Just relax,

let go,

and please now join in the Serenity Prayer.

God after the serenity just says the thing,

the courage into things I can and with wisdom to know the difference. Amen.

I love that.

OK, I'm supposed to do steps 10:00 and 11:00 this morning.

OK. Step 10

continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

We are supposed to read from page 84. Starting with this thought brings us to 10, ending at bottom of page 85. That means more action. What is the Step 10 to me? And remember, whatever I say from the podium applies only to me. You can't believe totally otherwise. And I respect and honor that. This is what I believe, what I practice and what I share. For me, Step 10 is a daily tool to keep us unblocked from the sunshine of the Spirit

so that we can be a maximum use to God and those about us.

I'll repeat that Step 10 is a daily tool to keep me unblocked from the sunshine of the Spirit so that we can be of maximum use to God. And those about us

on page 84 says we continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them with His. We discuss them with someone immediately, preferably our sponsor.

I make amends quickly. If we have harmed anybody, anyone, then will resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help love and tolerance of others. Our code. That and we have seized fighting anything or anyone, even alcohol,

for by this time sanity will have returned.

And on page 5585 says to some extent we have become God conscious.

You see, because by this time

sanity will have returned

and

because sometimes I understand people drive around members a aces sober and crazy.

I don't understand that. See, I'm sober and the book tells me We who have recovered

I Miracles of Mental health. That's a quote from the book We who have Recovered, Not in Recovery,

who have recovered

Our miracles of mental health.

OK See, unfortunately, because we're, you know, human beings, you know, sometimes we forget we are one with God and we get our humanity take silver, we get afraid and we act up. And by the way, nobody gets to be perfect in a a it's physical improvement, not physical imperfection. OK, So, and when we hurt somebody or when we have a resentment, sometimes I don't hurt anybody, but I have a resentment against that group. But it's something, you know, I have to do a step 10

if I stay angry or have a resentment like Peter said yesterday, is resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. It doesn't work. You see, it's like a it's like an acid inside of me. It really eats me up. So I had to be free really of all that, so that God can use me and I can be at peace.

And by the way, my troubles

are always my troubles, and I create them.

There are no victims, only willing volunteers, the book tells them. You sell

page 62. So our troubles are of our own making.

Page 133 But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn't do it. Avoid them, the deliberate manufacturer of misery. And I have another quote from the 12 and 12 which is really even worse.

Patient Heidi. It is a spiritual axiom axiom. In undisputable truth. It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cost, there is something wrong with us, with me. Even if somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. I hate this crap

because that means I cannot blame you for anything. Because if you hurt me, it's my time to show you how forgiving I am, how loving I am, how much I am at peace that I can see you, just like at somebody else who's having a bad moment. Or like the book says, you know, we have to talk to people. They're just sick like we are.

And you see, I have a tendency to react, not to respond. And they taught me before I react to do these three things, and I really want you to write them. I will stop this before I want to say I want to say something to you when you talk to me, right? I have to think about these three things. One, what I'm going to say, one, is it true?

Two, is it necessary?

And the third one is the most important.

Is it kind?

So before I open my mouth, is it true? Is it necessary or is it kind?

Okay,

you see, I have to change the 12 steps are to change factor and I don't change myself. God changes me because I don't do anything. I allow God to change me,

see, because when I have a problem with you is because you see one of the things I said before, I want to repeat it. We don't see them as they are. We see them as we are.

We don't see them. I don't see you as you are. I see them as I am. You notice, for instance, I get in the morning, I'm going to go driving. If I do my work, I do my prayer, my meditation, I bless my car and you bless my house. Before I leave, I go. I get on Sunset Blvd. and I just flow through. Somebody wants to get in. Please get in.

I don't do my work. I'm in a rush because I have to go to the gym. Oh, this is very important. I can. Oh, what is wrong with this stupid street? I start cursing. It's not spiritual language what I do when I'm angry. You know what I mean? And what? What is wrong with this effing idiot? Get out of my way. You see it's the same people the same place I'm seeing with two different kinds of eyes

the eyes of fear and the eyes of love when I'm at one with God, I see them with the eyes of love when I'm Hector self center Hector okay then I see them with eyes of fear. So remember we are not here to change the world. We're here to accept the world as is. The 12 steps is to change only Hector, not to change my sponsor, you, my mom, my wife, my husband, my

my children are my neighbors is to change Hector. And Hector doesn't change himself. Hector allows God to change him. OK

umm, if I want to live in harmony with the people around me, I have to change. My spirit has to be free of selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear,

you know. So when I am at fault, when I have you to resentment, I have to make amends.

Because you see, if I have resentment, the book says the number one killer I'm going to drink and for me to drink is to die.

OK. The following is a guide to assess any trouble situation before making amends. I got it from the page 91, the 12:00 and 12:00

that he has four suggestions in all situations we need to ask God for and these are the four suggestions. One, self restraint,

two, honest analysis of what is involved. Two honest analysis of what is involved. 3 willingness to admit when the fault is ours, willingness to admit when the fault is hour and 4 an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere. OK, so to my knowledge, there's only three kind of inventories in it and, you know, and the book

of Alcoholics Anonymous. But then there may be more.

It's #4 inventory Step 4, right? And then we have the spot on the spot inventory. That means I'm having trouble with you right away. I do something wrong and I apologize right away. That's on the spot. And then the one we can do at the end of the day, which is basically the 4th step, but it's called a daily inventory. And they had given me a format. I don't use it that much because you know, when I do something wrong, I know what I'm supposed to do. The other day I was a meeting and they had saved all the

10 people and 50 seats and all the seats were saving.

I didn't get to a spiritual about that

and I was talking to the secretary and this guy come over and but in and he says something I didn't like and I said I didn't react. I walked away. When I walked away, he says something else I didn't like. My reaction was not spiritual and I said something to him was not spiritual and I knew right then and there happy to make an amendment. I was not ready yet, but I came back. I don't go to the meeting that often. I came back the next week and I said I want to talk to you. You know what I said to you last week was really

proper and I want to apologize. I was really wrong and I apologize. Is anything else I should do? You know, he said. No, I want to apologize to you,

you know, so I didn't write, but this is the format they gave me to write what I want to just, you know, see what is that I am doing? I do 3 columns 1. The first one is I'm resentful at or I'm fearful at

the second column because what I write what happened.

The third column, it affects my self esteem, personal relations, ambitions, pocketbook and sexual relationship.

On the source, the name, what happened and what affects me right on the back, we'd write this. I don't do this right, that I go to a meeting, but they do two or three of these a day. Yeah, just several. Obsessed with self, these people. OK.

And on the back I write God, these are the character defects that if you remove them, I would not have them and they would not prevent me from doing your will.

And I write whatever my character defect is. And I look at this and then after I do that, I do 6:00 and 7:00.

I pause, I look at them, see what would be the spiritual, spiritual quality could replace the character defect if it's anger, our obvious peace or love, right? And then I do the seven step prayer.

Then I'm ready to make the call or go in person and talk to that person because then my house is in order and I can do it without anger.

And remember, I can get assault with a reaction to fear. And fear comes for only two reasons.

I'm not going to get what I want or I'm going to lose what I already have.

And remember, we operate only under two conditions of life, love or fear.

Love is God. Fear is the absence of God

love or fear?

Love is God. Fears the absence of God. OK,

let's see.

And after we make the amends, we make the, you know, we apologize,

we look at what says on page 84, We resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help.

Not only we have to make amends, but because I'm so self obsessed, who can I help? Who can I call? What can I do for AAA or even for my neighbor? Doesn't have to be a, a What I do for my neighbor because she's not too strong, I bring all the garbage cans, you know, on Friday morning, not Thursday night. And on Friday, after the garbage is collected, I put them inside her house.

OK. But I always, because you see, the test of our spiritual condition, our religious beliefs, you know, it's not. It's wonderful that we'll do it here. But also we have to carry this, you know, this kind of thing in all our affairs has to be manifest in our lives.

You know,

the messenger is not what I think. What I know, my intellectual knowledge or spiritual matter is how I conduct my life. And that's more or less all that I have, you know, on stage.

I should speak Spanish. I in El Paso dies Caramba.

OK Step 11

sought through pair of meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him.

Praying only praying only, praying only

for knowledge, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out. I have a friend, Harvey. Here's a very wonderful sense of humor and this this steps about prayer and meditation. And he taught me that when you talk to God, it's called prayer. And what God talks back to you is called the schizophrenia.

Harvey is for Britain. That's a very wonderful sense of humor. Okay, Step 11. We'll read from page 85 to the end of chapter, the chapter on page 88. And these short pages, you know, we're giving three different formats to teachers how to use prayer at different times of the day.

They are not in this order, but I want to read them in this order on awakening.

OK,

page 86.

Let us think about the 24 hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct. Is the mic on?

OK, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self pity, dishonest or self seeking motives. Under this conditions we can employ our mental faculty faculties with assurance. So after all, God gave us brains to use

our thought life will be placed on a much higher plane with our thinking is cleared of wrongdoing. So they give us a plan how to plan the day. So if we can take a minute, I personally don't do this, but I write the night before what I'm going to do the next day. So when I get up in the morning, I'm not lost. And the first thing that go and on my list is P-M prayer and meditation

than all the other things.

First I say hello to God and I make the connection, and then I do the rest of the things.

Now, the book says

in the middle of the day on page bottom, page 87. As we go through the day, we pause.

The power of pause.

Be still.

Have a problem. Be still bottom of 8677. As we go through the day we pause when agitated or die, fall and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show.

Because you see, I thought that was my job. I was a general manager of the entire universe

so I haven't renounced the title yet.

Humbly saying to ourselves many times each day thy will be done.

Where then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self pity or foolish decisions.

We become more efficient within that tire so easily, but we are not burning

up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.

It works, it says. It works. It really does OK

and they give us a plan from when we go to bed.

Page 86 nighttime. When we retire at night, we constructively review our day.

Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest, or afraid? These all characteristics of the ego.

See, the eagle is the world of the many.

God is a world of one, but there is one that has all power, the book says.

But world, spiritual world, is a world of one. The world of the ego is the world of many. More cars, more relationship, more money, more houses, more sex. And it's never enough because the ego is never happy.

If you have an Oscar, you want three Oscars. If you have good looking girlfriend, 3 girlfriends will be better. How about all the girls in the Playboy mansion? So the ego is never satisfied. Is the world of the many. The world of God is the world of God. Alcohol is cunning, baffling. I'm powerful, the book says. But there is one capital O, not two or three that has all power. Now 75%

not 90% all power

and then they name it. That one is God. May you find Him now and then they list the steps. To me the steps are spiritual tools to develop a conscious contact with God. Do you notice the word recovery is not mentioned in 12 steps?

The EU know the word sobriety is not mentioned. 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Not even the name of our disease, alcoholism, is mentioned, but this one word is mentioned

nine times. Check it out.

Our word is God.

OK. So

when we retired at night,

we constructively review our day where we resentful, selfish, dishonest, or afraid. Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving to her all what could have done, what we could have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time, or we were thinking of what we could do for others

or what we could pack into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse, or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others. After making our review, we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrected measures should be taken. OK. So those are three tools we can use on a daily basis.

OK,

now I'm going to say some thoughts that I believe about prayer.

Inside of Maine there is an everlasting source of power, better known as God's grace.

If I learn to harness it, that power can heal me, and it can inspire me by telling me what to do, how to do it, and it can give me inner peace. And most important of all, it can give me direct connection to the indwelling power of God. Prayer and meditation are the best and most direct ways to access that power. What we call in a a a conscious contact.

OK, now about prayer.

What is God's grace? The book doesn't tell me what God's grace is. The 12 and 12 doesn't tell me. So I had to go to other sources and this is my definition of God question. Remember, this applies only to me. You can use totally, totally different. God's grace for me is in a merited gift.

And by the way, the only gift that we gave from God.

That's the shortest version, but I'm going to give you the full version. God's grace is an A merited gift.

God's grace cannot be earned or deserved. God's grace is not in the future. God's grace is operating in me right this second. God's grace is the essence of my entire being. God's grace is God in me

and as children's of God we ask to God's grace. Everybody has God's grace inside of him, which I had to remember our oneness with God.

OK, that what we are one with that and as members of Alcoholics Anonymous, we have to learn how to access that grace to a 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous so that we can develop that conscious contact with God. So God's grace is an unmerited gift. Oh, by the way, and God doesn't love me because I am good. He loves me because he is good.

MMM MMM,

faith with that prayer is aimless

and prayer without faith is useless.

The most important ingredient in prayer is faith.

Pray believing that your prayers already answered

because remember as the Father good grace or good I forgot the word is the Father's good pleasure to these people know

is the Father good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

So pray, pray believing that your prayer is already answered. Now I'm going to tell you what I believe that prayer is not.

Prayer is not a petition,

not a supplication, and prayer is not begging. And this is what I believe the prayer is.

Pray as a dialogue with God for the purpose of aligning ourselves with the will of God.

I'm going to read it again. Pray is a dialogue with God for the purpose of aligning ourselves with the will of God. Man always longed for a relationship with a higher power and prayer is the proper vehicle.

And by the way, prayer doesn't do anything to God.

Prayer does something to the mind of the one praying because the nature of God

is love and he never alters. That's what I believe.

We must pray only for God's will and guidance. Otherwise we are telling God what to do,

and the book tells me the same thing. Page 15. Never was I to pray for myself, except as my request for usefulness to others.

Sometimes prayer is an easy activity, but in general, for most of what is not,

you know, as a general rule, most people do not enjoy praying. We get bored, lazy, and at times belligerent towards prayer, but we must get back to it if we're going to say sober,

You said because our lives, entire life is a continuous prayer. Every thought we have is a prayer. Every word we utter is a prayer. Every action we do is a prayer. That's what they mean by pray without seat. A little bit yesterday when he beautifully said that he believes in that. That's a prayer, but he's sponsor. I said use your word to say the same thing. I thought that was gorgeous, phenomenal,

you know, and this is what I, what I believe. It is important not to pray always with the same words and thoughts.

Our prayer should be very reflecting the different experiences in our daily living. To develop a strong relationship with a living God, just like any loving friend, we must put time and effort into deepening and strengthening our relation, Him, relationship with Him, our beloved. And that's what I believe because, you know, I have to have a relationship. If I can say just one prayer, whatever prayer it is, and they're all beautiful, I'm not putting them down.

I have to talk to God.

You know, I really sometimes I yell at God and sometimes I use words that are not very good, but he can handle it. You know what I mean? This God that created the whole universe that makes a cosmos rotate in perfect order that makes takes an embryo and make from a baby that takes a little seed, it makes a huge tree That God can handle my bloated ego

as long as I am talking to God.

OK, and I want to I talk a little bit a little workshop and about God and I want to just share this with you. I thought it was beautiful and and just imagine this the guy told us, you know what if God has a desperate need to have a relationship with you. Yes, he yearns, he's nostalgic, he's passionate to have a love affair with you.

You know we need God, but God also needs us. Remember, he loves through us because we as his secrets weapon in this entire creation, we are unbelievably necessary to God's work. You know what if God has a love, a passionate, totally aim at you, He's nuts over you. He adores you, He loves you.

Think about that.

Because you see, your presence is a confirmation of God's presence, and you are incredibly necessary to God's plan

A. A will not work without us.

God needs us.

He needs to carry his message, the message of AA. He needs our words, our thoughts, our hugging, our smiling.

How had to do 12 step? So we are very necessary to God and He's madly in love with all of you, whether you know it or not.

He just want to have a love affair with you. Wouldn't you want to pray to somebody who feels like that towards you? He adores you. He's nuts over you. So wouldn't you want to pray to that? Wouldn't you want to have a relationship with that? I love that. I was so happy after I took that feeling. Yes, I say yes to all of that.

OK.

It is good to practice prayer in different places and many times of the day. But it is also very important to set a time for our communion with our higher power. Perhaps in the morning, perhaps in the morning. You know, we're still, we haven't absorbed all the negativity and we haven't watched the news. Don't watch the news in the morning, you know,

just to dedicate five times to the higher power. OK, That's called the spiritual practice. What is my spiritual practice? How much do I love God? Well, how much you love God?

Tell me, how much time you spent with them. So how much time you watch television? 2 hours a day. How much time do you dedicated to God? Two minutes. What are you going to do when you're in trouble? Call Jay Leno.

OK, so we're going to dedicate maybe a few minutes to God in the morning and at night. Prayer needs reparation and discipline because we must be still in our bodies and quiet in our minds. Remember, be still and know that I'm God. We must say for the next 5 or 10 minutes, nothing matters but my time with God.

What I'm going to do is the sustenance for my spiritual growth, my sobriety, and the essence of my entire life.

God is all my needs met. Or God could and would. He was sought

pray in secret and pray in silence.

Pray in secret and pray in silence. Because you see, every time we play in public, the egos involved

remember that 10 things for the day, the little pamphlet, a pamphlet that says, you know, do something, a good deed today, but don't tell anybody otherwise it doesn't count. This is the same same principle, anonymity. Pray in secret, okay? And pray in silence. Even when you eat, if you choose to, you don't have to go.

No, just think. Thank you, God for this food. God knows. God knows, you know. Thank you, God for my car. Thank you, God for this magnificent worship. OK,

now

the highest form of prayer. Silence.

Why? Because silence is the language of God.

That's why we say prayer and meditation.

We end up the 1st 11 steps in silence to listen to the still small voice

which is inside of us.

Be still

go inside

to the secret price of the most high inside to touch that Divinity which is inside of all of us. Remember, we have physical manifestation of the living God and inside of us, all of us, would you know it or you accept it or not. You know that the part divine particle of God, and that's where 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are for, to make that conscious contact with the divinity which is inside of all of us.

OK, I met meditation. God's grace can be best realized by a state of inner silence,

a state of inner alertness to receive the highest and most precious of all against God, and the only gift, God's grace. The entire purpose of meditation is a preparation of our mind and body to receive that gift.

We practice the program together, but we enter the Kingdom of God alone

because it's inside of all of us. Nobody can help us with that, OK?

And we achieved that conscious contact with our Creator. We are truly, truly free of the world of conditions and circumstances. That's not the real world, that's an illusion. The real world, my real life, is inside of me. What you're seeing right now is not the real Hector. This is the physical manifestation, the real hectares inside of me.

And he was never touches unsoiled. And he can only communicate with God.

You can cut my arm. You cannot touch my God's grace because it's inside of Maine. My divinity, my soul, my spirit, you cannot touch unless I allow you to. Remember, there are no victims, only willing volunteers.

Meditation is not escape from life, but a peaceful encounter with reality.

What, Who, and what I really AM?

Garb will reveal Himself to us in the stillness of our own soul, and we will know who and what we really are. God is pure spirit, and the things of God can only be discerned with the mind, not with the mind. It has to be realized spiritually,

you know, for many of us, it's really difficult to sit and be quiet. Meditation is a difficult practice to master, you know,

but since the purpose of meditation is to receive divine guidance from God, if we want a specific result, I'm going to pray, pray, you know, meditate for to get this, this and that

array failed because I'm telling you, God, you know what I need and I don't know what I need. I thought I needed a Mercedes. I thought I needed gorgeous Ralph Lauren suits and a gorgeous apartment and I got all that. That's money in the bank and I ended up dead in intensive care unit for three days.

They had to revive me twice. So obviously I don't know what's good for me

now. There are many forms of meditation

and but this in a single one that's suitable for everybody. The biggest problem meditation is to really hold one thought in the mind.

You know it's impossible. You can hold it Maple two or three seconds. Don't try. If a thought comes into your mind, just observe it.

Don't give it power,

give it power. It owns you,

you know, say, how's that So and so you know, she did something for me and and just look at it

and it will go away. Just look at it and go back. If you have a thought, for instance, if you have a mantra, mantra is just a word you know that you may choose love, peace or whatever, you know, and you repeat in your mind when the thought comes, just get back gently. Don't get upset with yourself to the mantra. We have thought of you watching you breathing to your breathing, OK?

Umm, progress in meditation is very, very slow. But like anything else, you know, if you keep doing it, you get better at Oh, and I guarantee you, I guarantee you, Hector guarantees this. If you meditate and pray every day, if you make a short prayer, if you meditate even 10 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes in life, your life will change irrevocably.

I guarantee it.

OK, Hmm.

The purpose of prayer and meditation is to break our attachment to the material world. That's what it is. Nothing requires more discipline than the spiritual way of life. But nothing gives us greater joy, greater peace, greater security than entering our inner sanctuary and realizing that the Father and I are one.

OK, my beloved one, I'm going to tell you. I'm going to leave you with words my sponsor gave me. I was going to talk about this, but this is enough. This is a, I think barefoot. Bill, did you make the copies? I don't know.

OK, this is a beautiful a step, a point program of meditation. Get a copy. It's free. It's right there at the end of the workshop, and it tells you quite a few things, not just meditation. It talks about one pointedness, you know, spiritual reading, putting others first. It's slowing down. It's spiritual association and different kinds of meditation. And it's for Jews, gentiles, Buddhists, Muslims, whatever, because he has a mantra for every religion. It is just one page.

You can buy 50 books you're not going to or you can get the little page and get the message and I made we make copies. It's free for you. Okay,

OK, I'm going to just say one more minute and this is my my, my sponsor gave me this. And when he gives a workshop with a 12 step, this is what he ends with. Stay on the firing line of life.

Give freely of what you found. You're certain to be more useful that you have ever been.

When you see someone in the program. Get the gift. Get it. When you see the light come on, you will be forever lost. You will understand what you never understood, that you have had the privilege of a front row seat to a spiritual experience,

that you have seen how great God really is, that you know that God is love and that he that abideth in love abideth in God and God abideth in Him.

Whatever you go, take only love with you.

You cannot take nothing greater. You need to take nothing less. It is the man

who is a missionary is not in his words.

I love you very, very, very much and I receive so much love from all of you throughout this convention. And I feel so privileged and so, so happy to have known all of you. You're just magnificent children of God. I receive your love and I hope you really know how much I love you. God bless you and thank you.