The Return

If you are in recovery or an ex-Catholic, or drop-out Catholic, I have a comparison.  In recovery you go to meetings, read the literature, work steps, help new-comers and be of service.  Then one day, you have a sudden desire to succumb to your addiction.  Example: a drink looks good.  All of the above help does not seem to fill that empty space inside you that the drink will fill.  You suffer the emptiness of no sufficiency in yourself to resist.  So you say, “Power, I am empty.  It is up to you.  I am powerless.”  You surrender.  Something happens, whatever it is, and you don’t take that drink.  You live another day, not on your power, but one not your own.  All of the above program stuff is to get you to that place of knowing your own nothingness and surrendering to a Power that is not you.  Tomorrow, I do the drop-out Catholic stuff.  Bet you can’t wait.