Dallas Bragg questions why people credit a higher power for staying clean but blame themselves for relapse. He suggests the higher power might intentionally allow relapse as a teaching tool, reframing it as a purposeful lesson rather than personal failure.
Let me ask you something. Why is it when you don't use, you give the higher power the credit, but when you do use, it's all your fault? Angel and devil. Are you the devil? Are you the sinner? Are you the unmanageable one, the defective one that causes the relapse? Or is everything, whether you use or don't use, What if everything is from a higher power? What if your higher power wanted you to use because it knew you needed to learn something? It knew you needed to— that you were missing a little element in your recovery. It knew you needed to learn how not to use by using. What if all of it is your higher power and you're not your own enemy?
