10:15 a.m. We're All Addicted to Something

Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 10 a.m.

b'As Carol Bieleck says in her poem, we cannot stop the drowning waters\\nof our addictive culture from rising, but we must at least see our reality for what it is, seek to properly detach from it, and build a coral castle and learn to breathe underwater. The New Testament called it salvation or enlightenment,\\nthe Twelve Step Program called it recovery.\\n~ Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps, p. xv-xvi'