Step 10 – Recovery Speakers — Workshop – Part 2 of 34 – 2004 – Terry R.
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Recovery Speakers — Workshop - 2004
A former Jesuit novitiate and high school theology teacher dissects the danger of claiming to speak for a Higher Power using the bloody history of the First Crusade and the slaughter in Jerusalem as a warning against spiritual arrogance. He argues that true spiritual connection isn't found in intellectual mastery or 'crawling up the spinal column of a Higher Power,' but in the humility of being 'like old shoes'—worn in and useful. He frames recovery as a process of osmosis where hope is absorbed by surrounding oneself with sober people. The narrative shifts from the intellectual to the visceral comparing the spiritual life to the kneading and punching of bread dough and the necessity of starting over every single morning even when waking up hostile to the sounds of National Public Radio.
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