The God Pace

I met a drunk once who told me that he had gone to a Recovery meeting, and did not like it.  He never went back.  I asked him if he had an experience of God, or Higher Power, as it is phrased.  He said no. 

He drank himself to death in a few years.  The  spiritual experience within is crucial to a life being transformed.  But God is not McDonald's fast food.  God is not so hurry, hurry.  It is one thing to believe in a God.  This fellow did, but it was some intellectual belief without much of an experience of the Presence.  Without patience, I would have given up on this spiritual journey a long time ago.