FATHER TERRY RICHEY (RIP) SUNDAY AA SPEAKER @ THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY CONVENTION IN OCTOBER 2007

“The good news is God loves you. The bad news is he loves everyone else, too.” I once asked him how I’d know if I was making spiritual progress. He thought for a minute. “If crazy people aren’t afraid to come up and talk to you,” he replied, “that’s a pretty good sign.” A native of Hawthorne, Father Terry entered the seminary at 14, served as director of Alcohol/Substance Abuse Ministry for the archdiocese for many years, and throughout the decades conducted interventions, led retreats nationwide, and was a friend to many at first glance “very unpromising” people. For decades he directed alcoholics and addicts to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). He’s also observed what happens to them once they get there. “To be a drunk and get sober,” he pointed out, “is one of the ultimate death-and-resurrection experiences. When Christ said, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit,’ some of the people he must surely have been thinking about were alcoholics and addicts. It’s a wonderful gift for a person to see, left to his or her own devices, the depths to which we’re capable of sinking. Sometimes I don’t know how people come to a relationship with Christ without hitting bottom with some kind of addictive, obsessive behavior.” IF YOU'D LIKE TO SUPPORT MY CHANNEL IN A MORE DIRECT WAY YOU CAN SEND A DOLLAR OR TWO TO MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT [email protected] VIDEO IS EDITED WITH DA VINCI RESOLVE 19. A GO PRO HERO 7 FOR TAPER DAVE 4K VIDEO SHOTS. 4K VIDEO FOOTAGE MADE FROM A POTENSIC ATOM 3 AXIS GIMBAL DRONE.