Originally Posted by doorknob
I think it's great that people can secularize what to me is inherently not secular.
Like you and Five, I also have a great respect for anyone who is able to make a 12-step program work for them. Even envious at times. Though I don't "believe in" a theological God, or the biblical or Western culture's depiction, choosing a higher power was the easy part. There's lots of those. It's the rest of it that I can't get my fat head around, lol.
And another thing too, is that in open meetings, the speaker most always refers to a higher power (mostly God) as the end and be-all of their recovery. Regardless of who/what one turns it over to, they're still turning it over. I think that's part of what tripped me up.
Maybe I'm just hard-headed, but I don't think so. There's just so much more to it.
Well Blake, I certainly wish you the best of luck, and I think it's great that you are able to wrap your mind around it all, really.
