it's no accident they call it The Present
It’s a gift, the Now: it’s AA’s real gift: it’s no accident they call it The Present.
Context
The doctrine distilled to a pun by the nearly-dead old-timer they wheel to the meetings: the Now is the program's real gift, and the word for the moment is the word for the gift. It is exactly the kind of vapid-seeming slogan the wraith of scene 162 couldn't stomach — and it is also, Gately is coming to see, the whole practical philosophy, the single technology that makes both cravings and unendurable pain survivable one second at a time.