Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions

Contemplation is simply trying to face life in a truly undefended and open-eyed way.11

Our threefold participation of prayer, meditation, and action responds to God’s graceful initiatives in our lives, and it leads toward a deepening trust in God.

Third, we try to live the spiritual reality as best we can. This means taking risks of faith, trying to trust the incomprehensibly loving presence of God whether we feel it or not, and being as loving of ourselves and others as we possibly can.

God will not be a puppet master over humanity.

the threefold nature of the human spiritual condition: God creates us for love and freedom, attachment hinders us, and grace is necessary for salvation.

Our prayer may be formal words or a simple, silent turning toward God, but it acknowledges our source of hope, expresses our true desire, unites us with the rest of humanity, and commits our willingness to God.

all major religions deal centrally with the basic themes I have set forth here: we are created for love and freedom, addiction hinders us, and grace is necessary for salvation.

Second, insofar as we can, we attend to the heart sense within us;

For a moment, we are relieved of bondage to who we think we are, and we can simply be.