It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 85

We have arrived. That’s what it is, what it feels like,
and that’s the truth. We have become who we want to be,
have ceased fighting, have seen sanity return.
But while we’re recovered we are not cured!
It’s a daily reprieve but it doesn’t continue to “just happen.”
It continues to happen if and as long as we maintain
the spiritual condition that got us here.
How can we do that? We admit we’re powerless,
that our lives cannot be managed by us,
that there is some power greater than we are
who might be able to, and we turn our will and lives
to the care of that power. We look at ourselves,
we share our truths, we become willing and release our wrongs,
we become willing and make amends…
then we repeat ad infinitum, day after day,
rejoicing in the life we’ve found
and vigilant to hold on to it, to keep our daily reprieve.