Live It

 Maybe a religion or any spiritual path needs to be lived first before it can be understood.  Most people want to understand something, like the content of a faith, before they will commit themselves to its practice.  Most people who drop out of religion may have had the faith as some propositions like a creed, but never really practiced it much beyond an occasional attendance. Recovery programs are spiritual ways of living.  Someone comes in new and says they do not understand the 12 steps and so leave.  It is suggested that you practice the program and then it will make sense.  Practice opens the spiritual dimension that was hidden from the skeptical, closed mind.  Desperation can be a good thing sometimes.  It gets one to practice a path while the mind remains in a clueless fog.