The Ladder

No one who drank as I didwakes up on the edge of the abyss one morning and says:
Things look pretty scary;
I think I'd better stop drinking before I fall in.
I was convinced I could go as far as I wanted, and then climb back out when it wasn't fun anymore.
What happened was, I found myself at the bottom of the canyonthinking I'd never see the sun again.
AA didn't pull me out of that hole.
It did give me the tools to construct a ladder, with Twelve Steps.

-- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 316

I stood in the sunlight at last.

G I F T S = Getting It From The Steps.