September 9 – Opening New Doors

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 11m · transcript

Pastor Mike opens with a thought about the doors that close behind you, which he finds as significant as the ones that open ahead — and the reminder that walking through a new one has never once meant arriving. He's still a work in progress, and glad of it. Corey takes it to the question of what a spiritual experience is actually for, drawing a hard line under Step Twelve's wording: having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, not a result. From there he lays his old life beside his new one and finds the same shape in both. He knows exactly what it looks like to abandon…