I am addressing this to alcoholics
who have had trouble with the religious overtones
in the AA program.
To those who do not accept the idea of a supernatural being,
let me assert that it is always people
who have strengthened me when I needed help.
I admit that I need more strength than I alone possess
to overcome the compulsion to drink.
I receive this strength from the power for good generated in AA.
I have interpreted the frequent mention of "God"
in the Twelve Steps and elsewhere
as power that comes from other people.
Nobody knows how it works, but it DOES.
N E W = Nothing Else Worked.