Volume Two (currently being written)

Volume two of Spiritual Exodus begins the focus on recovery from the devastation of addiction, and is titled After All We Can Do. Individual Will in Recovery. While my conviction is that relationships and grace are the catalysts in recovery, I yet entertain no doubt that individual will and effort, over one’s lifetime, is the initial and essential ingredient of change. After All We Can Do outlines thinking, feeling, and action changes that are the core molecules in recovery

A central theme of this and the other volumes as well, is moral agency. As has been said elsewhere, “the greatest gift we have been given, next to life itself, is the power to direct that life” (My Turn on Earth). “Agency is too fundamental ... to be left in such jeopardy” (Elder Boyd K. Packer, 1989, p. 14). An explanation of the jeopardy and possible forfeit of agency through addiction, and the role of individual recovery work in its restoration, is the critical attention of this volume.

After All We Can Do describes all we must do to begin to rehabilitate our learning and lives and re-construct agency, in preparation for our final qualification for that grace which brings divine restoration and reendowment of agency, after all we can do.