I've been thinking about this line from the Big Book (p. 35) so much lately.
It seems that enlarging my spiritual life is contingent on a couple of things. First, I need to be out of alternatives.
Second, I need to have a concept of a higher power that I am willing to surrender to.
If I don't have both of these, something from the bakery is probably going to seem like a better idea.
So today I really appreciate the gift of desperation which drove me to seek help with my food addiction. I couldn't control the effects of my eating anymore. My concept of a higher power wasn't what it is today, but I could see that the food plan and the Steps was a combination that was working for the people in my group. That was enough to make a beginning.
A beginning was all that was necessary. And I have to begin again every day, but that's okay. What else is there to do?

I like what you shared and agree with it. For be to enlarge my spiritual life means the program. I look at it as the very spiritual of me. What validates, nurtures, lifts me up and makes me whole. That is the spiritual for me. That's is working the program. Not putting the nasty stuff in my body, going to meetings, calling others in program, working the steps, working with my sponsor and prayer and meditation are all a part of my spiritual life. I appreciate hearing from you and happy recovery to you.