The Backdoor

 Many people reject places of worship because they experience or have heard about them as judgmental, exclusive, dogmatic, elitist and uninviting.  So be it for that experience.  But then they reject any God.  For one reason is that they cannot find the backdoor.  They only tried the front door of institutions.  There is a backdoor.  The institutional power they rejected or felt rejected.  But there is another power that is found through the backdoor such as welcoming recovery programs, or groups that help the rejected, the poor, the messed up, the lost.  Sometimes simply being of service helps to find this backdoor power.  For addicts, it is the only power that will truly save them from themselves.  And for some, the backdoor may lead through recovery, and service, to the front door, but from the inside, and not the outside.