Most recovery stories are a story of descent that reaches a crisis, and, at the crisis point, a new path opens up, which, if followed, leads to recovery.
Something happens that can be likened to lightning striking, an intervention in an apparently ineluctable progression.
Death, here, is undone, and, in a greater sense, the soul is restored, and death is undone for good.
One's understanding is gratifying not but necessary for acceptance of the fact.
The same applies for the efficacy of prayer, firstly in resolving knotty practical problems and secondly in restoring one to equanimity, for the effectiveness of Step Nine, even though most of the harm done is not really undone by the Step Nine, merely admitted to and regretted, and for the startling effect of sponsorship on the sponsor (even though the sponsee sometimes remains quite untouched by the process).
It is wise, therefore, to separate the acceptance of something happening from the technical understanding of what is happening.