What he learned, he says, is that he was “not-God,” because for so long the alcoholic acts like God, able to control everything, he thinks. After his vision, he knew he was not God. And he found that accepting himself as essentially limited, he was able to find “a healing wholeness in the acceptance of this limitation.”10 The recovering addict would understand Ammon’s liberated position: “Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things” (Alma 26:12).
