We admitted we couldn't lick alcohol with our own remaining resources, and so we accepted the further fact that dependence upon a Higher Power (if only our AA group) could do this hitherto impossible job The moment we were able to accept these facts fully, our release from the alcohol compulsion had begun As Bill Sees It, Page 109Freedom came to me only with my acceptance that I could turn my will and my life over to the care of my Higher Power, whom I call God Serenity seeped into the chaos of my life when I accepted that what I was going through was life, and that God would help me through my difficulties