The Steps Changed My Life

On January 31, 1988, I attended my first AA meeting and have not had a drink of alcohol since. Coming out of a blackout around 3:00 AM on the day before, I’d had a sudden intuition (a grace?), and I suddenly knew without a doubt that the reason I felt so miserable was my drinking. Later that day, I called a former drinking buddy who was now one year sober, and I asked him to take me to an AA meeting because I wanted to quit drinking. He said, “Don’t drink today, Robert, and we’ll go tomorrow.”