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How to balance divine grace with personal effort in recovery

My rabbi says my recovery from alcoholism is a daily miracle, but I did all the work in AA and therapy and it feels wrong to give credit to God for my sobriety.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The interplay between human agency and transcendent assistance challenges neat categories of self-reliance versus spiritual dependence.

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