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When family member's spiritual awakening creates tension with others

My sister found God in recovery and it's beautiful but also she keeps trying to save the rest of us and family dinners have become tense because she sees our drinking and our choices as spiritual failures. We want to celebrate her transformation but we also need her to stop trying to transform us.

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One person's profound spiritual shift can illuminate uncomfortable truths while threatening the delicate ecology of family acceptance.

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