Scattered Pieces

I did not go to AA to quit drinking.
I went to AA to learn the secret formulacalled "How to Drink Like a Gentleman."
At the end of three months, I had not been given the secret formula,but something happened: I did not get drunk,nor did I quit going to meetings.
When I went to that first meeting, in fear and trepidation, I did not realizethat the people of AA would lead me out of the bondage of alcoholand into the promised land of sobriety,if I would simply stay away from the first drink. . .
And, eventually, AA would lead me back into the stream of life,and I would pick up the scattered pieces that were the jigsaw puzzle of my life.

Time To Start Living, p. 26