Stepping Into the Sunlight

If someone were to insist on my singling out which to me is the most important of the Twelve Steps, I'd have to cite the Eleventh. Early in my AA journey I wouldn't have regarded it with such reverence. In fact I scarcely noted it and would never have predicted that it would assume importance in my life because it smacked of religion, mysticism, trances, mantras, and all manner of squirmy things strange people who can't manage their own lives do. But with time it slowly assumed a status as the first among equals and now plays a pivotal role in what I perceive to be my slow but continuing progress toward some semblance of sanity.