"Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, wrote that 'few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.' He found that utter desolation - rock bottom, as we call it - often incited alcoholics to admit their helplessness and surrender to a higher power.
"So, then, is rock bottom a good or a bad thing? Without downplaying the awfulness of suffering and how horrific the lowest low may be, I propose that the very idiom hitting rock bottom indicates a hopeful reality.
"Hitting rock bottom is not an experience known only to addicts, and it looks different from one situation to another. . . ."
In a recent commentary, Brother Samuel Trecost, O.P., reflected on how a person at rock bottom is unable to go any further down (the hopeful part) and on how, no matter what else one loses, he/she cannot lose God..
To access Br. Samuel's complete post, please visit:
Dominicana: God at Rock Bottom (27 JAN 23)
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