“Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery” (Page 59, Big Book)
‘Suggest’, per Merriam-Webster:
“to offer for consideration or as a hypothesis”
In other words, they offer me the Twelve Steps.
When I’m offered a job, I need not take the job.
But if I accept the offer, the components of the job are not ‘offered’.
They are part of what I have agreed to.
The notion of ‘suggestion’ applies only until I say ‘yes’.
If I say ‘yes’, they are converted into undertakings, into commitments.