The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says on page 45 that “lack of power, that was our dilemma” for me that means that the reason I couldn’t stop what I was doing was not lack of wisdom or lack of knowledge, (nor was it a lack of morals as the book mentions in another place “some of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore”) so what was it that we lacked?

It was a lack of “power” if I lack power than it just makes sense that my solution should be power too. The truth is I just need to realize that the power I lack is within me, so if I am going to win this game I need a power to help me and that power is a “power” from outside of me, and a power greater than myself