“Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now. Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men” (AA 16).

I just re-read Bill’s Story (AA Chapter 1) with a sponsee of mine as part of his Step One work. It’s amazing that two Jewish sexaholics from Israel in their mid-twenties can identify with a 40-year-old alcoholic stockbroker from New York. Bill’s story is rough and sad—until his crazy hopeless bottom. It’s remarkable that he survived that bottom, and even more remarkable that he grew to be the spiritual person he was, even while writing the Big Book!

The God I trust today is that big. If he can sober up Bill W. from alcoholism, then He can sober me up from active lusting. And He has done exactly that, in giving me more than two years of SA sobriety. If He can do that for a guy like me—who was so hooked on lust that when my friend told me about SA, I had to prove to him that I was not a sexaholic, and that I could stop on my own (even though I couldn’t stay sober more than five days)—then He can do anything.

So Utopia is here all right. We still live in the era of miracles. Just look around you at your next SA meeting!