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February 1997

Mesmerized By Sanity

Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

When I first became a member of AA, all I did was stop drinking. This was a long time ago, and it was what the Fellowship around me advocated: you stayed away from the first drink a day at a time, shared at meetings, and this state of sobriety would enable you to solve all of your life's problems. My friends in AA, having been sober for some time, had something I wanted so I did what they did.

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