What Does 'Surrender' Mean?

My first two or three years of contact with AA were the most exciting in my whole professional life. AA was then in its miracle phase; everything that happened seemed strange, wonderful, out of this world. Hopeless drunks were being lifted out of the gutter. Individuals who had sought every known means of help, without success, were responding to this new approach. To be close to any such group even by proxy was in itself most electrifying.