Taking the Twelve Steps just as they are in the A.A. Big Book will fix that. Their purpose is to make it possible for us to learn to live by spiritual principles while walking a path that truly goes somewhere...and thus do we no longer need the effect of alcohol in order to try to live.

Step Two is not a theological exercise, so none of that makes any difference in relation to getting started in actual recovery by taking the Steps...

"We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. 'Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?' As soon as a wo/man can say that s/he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him/her that s/he is on his/her way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built." (page 47)

By taking the remainder of the Steps. Step One is where we discover, admit and accept our lack of power and our inability to manage our own ways out of the pit, then Step Two is where we become willing to look for and accept power from outside of ourselves...and then Step Three is a decision to take Steps Four through Nine in order for the presence of that power to become reality in our own lives. Few people in today's AA will ever tell you about all of that or be able show you how to get there, but that is the original A.A. and is guaranteed to work for anyone willing and able to give it a try to see what actually happens.