The price of sobriety is twenty bucks, your car, your job, your house, and your wife and kids."
"Are you willing to take it?" asks G-d.
The man nods.
G-d takes everything, and He is about to give the man his sobriety.
"But one thing," says G-d, "Before I give you your sobriety, there's something else I want you to do for me."
The man nods again.
"See this twenty dollars?" says G-d, "It's not your twenty dollars. It's my twenty dollars. You know that. But I want you to take it from Me, and I want you to be My emissary to spend it as I would. And you see this car? It's not your car. It's My car. But I want you to use it as I would. And this family - this wife and kids. They're not your family. They're My family. But I want you to take care of them the way that I would. Can you do all of that?"
The man nods again.
"Then here it all is. And here is your sobriety."
The secret to sobriety is when we realize that everything we have is G-d's, not ours. When we are willing to give it all away, we get it all back.
When we live our lives with this mentality, G-d gives us sobriety as gift so we can continue doing His work.