Twelve Steps to a Meeting

WHEN FIRST I CAME TO AA and recognized that all my futile efforts toward sobriety were leading only to new disasters, I realized that something drastic had to be done. The Twelve Steps appeared drastic and they were offered as the directions for sobriety. Many questions were asked, some wise, some otherwise, and the answers were there. . .in the literature and from those people who actually had used the Steps to gain and insure their continuing sobriety. I don't remember how many weeks or months it took for me to understand and put into practice the complete twelve suggestions, but I do know that within the limits of the honesty I then possessed, the Steps accepted and practiced were the source of my help and that I didn't then or since ever benefit by rejecting or delaying any part of them.