Getting Over the Higher Power Problem in the Chapter to the Agnostic – Russell S.
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Laguna Beach, California, and the scent of the Pacific. Russell S. returns from a trip with a "smuggled" line from a meeting: a bottom is when the consequences of your actions hit you faster than your ability to lower your standards.
He speaks with the bluntness of a man who spent nine years sober before realizing that spending more than you make results in debt. For Russell, sobriety isn't about "good orderly direction"—which he admits he's terrible at—but about the language of the heart and the wreckage of a dishonest life lived on credit cards. He warns against "watered-down chemotherapy" in the rooms, arguing that growth only happens when we are uncomfortable and squirming.
He challenges the agnostic to get over the "God problem," insisting that while the mechanics of the steps are useful, long-term sobriety requires a relationship with a Higher Power and a fellowship of people who make it too painful to leave.
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