Pray Your Way to an Authentic Higher Power
“All I do each night is pray hopin' that I'll be a part of you again someday All I do each night is think of all the times I close the door to keep my love within.” Take That, Pray (1993) Prayer can be as baffling and as confusing as addiction itself. Many people enter the doors of recovery suffering from more than just abuse inflicted upon them by others and themselves. Many of us also enter recovery feeling equally abused by God. And some of us could easily defend the concept that God is dead. After all, where was God when all of this abuse began happening to us as defenseless children? Why would a supposedly loving, all-powerful God sit back and do nothing to defend us? Where was God when we were learning to hate ourselves for not being good enough? Why didn’t God make us good enough? Why did God love other people more than us by making them better? Why isn’t God on my side? These are just a few of the very valid questions that any of us may ha...