Higher Powered
May 2025 | Young and Sober | Spiritual Awakenings

Higher Powered

A bumper sticker got her attention, but it was the kindness of members and her childhood religion that helped her with Step Two

I will always remember that bumper sticker I saw on the car in front of mine while crawling along the Santa Monica Freeway that day. It was 1983, a little less than 10 years before I got sober. Recovery slogans were as foreign to me then as the myriad of languages spoken in the city of Los Angeles. In large italic letters, the sticker read, “Higher Powered.”

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