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February 12th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 12, 2025 We Ask GodIn thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 86 Thought to Ponder . . .The Three "P's" -- Pause, Pray, Proceed. AA-related ...Continue Reading
February 11th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 11, 2025 Believe in the PowerThe unselfishness of these men as we have come to know them, the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit, is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this alcoholic field. They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxvii Thought to Ponder . . .Trust God, Clean House, ...Continue Reading
February 10th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 10, 2025 Common SymptomsThe most common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger self-pity, and depression. These stem from causes which sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without. To take inventory in this respect we ought to consider carefully all personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring trouble. It should be remembered that this kind of insecurity may arise in any area where instincts are threatened.- T ...Continue Reading
February 9th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)February 9, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Self-reliance Failed UsWasn’t it because self-reliance failed us? Self-reliance was good as far as it went, but it didn’t go far enough. Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it didn’t fully solve the fear problem, or any other. When it made us cocky, it was worse. Perhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Wo ...Continue Reading
February 8th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 8, 2025 A Spiritual Awakening"It was only when I came fully to believe I was powerless over alcohol, only when I appealed to a God who just might exist, that I experienced a spiritual awakening. This freedom-giving experience came first, and then faith followed afterward -- a gift indeed!"- As Bill Sees It, No. 152 Thought to Ponder . . .Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door. AA-related 'Alconym'A A = Amazing Awak ...Continue Reading
February 7th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 7, 2025 FaithIn this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 70 - 71 Thought to Ponder . . .Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grow ...Continue Reading
February 6th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 6, 2025 Director, Principal, FatherFirst of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn’t work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom.- - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 62 Thought to Ponder . ...Continue Reading
February 5th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 5, 2025 Faith Which Really WorksBy discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us. Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.- - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 43 Thought to Ponder . . .In order t ...Continue Reading
February 4th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 4, 2025 More Useful to OthersMost of us sense that real tolerance of other people’s shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others. Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 19 - 20 Thought to Ponder . . .What if I were caring rather than judgmental? AA-related ...Continue Reading
February 3rd 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 3, 2025 Major Human FailingsLet's take a universally recognized list of major human failings—the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. It is not by accident that pride heads the procession. For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.- - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 48 &n ...Continue Reading
February 2nd 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 2, 2025 FearThis short word somehow touches about every aspect of our lives. It was an evil and corroding thread; the fabric of our existence was shot through with it. It set in motion trains of circumstances which brought us misfortune we felt we didn’t deserve. But did not we, ourselves, set the ball rolling? Sometimes we think fear ought to be classed with stealing. It seems to cause more trouble.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 67 - 68 Thoug ...Continue Reading
February 1st 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 1, 2025 Higher PowerIn our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. Experience has taught us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried. They are questions for each individual to settle for himself.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 50 ...Continue Reading
January 31st 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 31, 2025 Unwilling to AdmitThey are always "going on the wagon for keeps." They are over- remorseful and make many resolutions, but never a decision. There is the type of man who is unwilling to admit that he cannot take a drink. He plans various ways of drinking. He changes his brand or his environment. There is the type who always believes that after being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time he can take a drink without danger.- Alcoholics ...Continue Reading
January 30th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 30, 2025 Continuous ActionMore sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life. That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in. Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life can bring the much-desired result.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 39 - 40 Thou ...Continue Reading
January 29th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 29, 2025 Test My ThinkingI was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within. Common sense would thus become uncommon sense. I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 13 Thought to Ponder . . .Thy Will, not mine be done. AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H = Found Always In Trusting Him. To Unsubscribe - Click Here ...Continue Reading
January 28th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 28, 2025 Twelfth Step WorkWe sit in A.A. meetings and listen, not only to receive something ourselves, but to give the reassurance and support which our presence can bring. If our turn comes to speak at a meeting, we again try to carry A.A.’s message. Whether our audience is one or many, it is still Twelfth Step work.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 110 Thought to Ponder . . .Service is spirituality in action. AA-related 'Alcony ...Continue Reading
January 27th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 27, 2025 A Mysterious WayAlmost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God. He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in ...Continue Reading
January 26th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)January 26, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~ No Effective Mental DefenseOnce more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 60 - 61 Thought to PonderI can't. He can. I'll ask Him to. AA-related 'Alconym'F R O G = Fully Rely On G ...Continue Reading
January 25th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 25, 2025 A Faith That WorksPracticing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription. It reads: "This is the way to a faith that works."- Twelve Steps a ...Continue Reading
January 24th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 24, 2025 This MovementIf any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor' ...Continue Reading
January 23rd 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 23, 2025 ElusiveMen and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxviii Thought to Ponder . . .Don't believe everything you think. AA-related 'Alconym'D E N I A L = Don't ...Continue Reading
January 22nd 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 22, 2025 To Make ProgressIf we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. That is something we are supposed to be willing to work toward ourselves. He asks only that we try as best we know how to make progress in the building of character.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) p. 65 Thought to Ponder . . .When I let go of what I am, I become what I ...Continue Reading
January 21st 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 21, 2025 Fear, Faith, CourageThe verdict of the ages is that faith means courage. All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do. We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68 Thought to Ponder . . .Courage is fear in action. AA-related 'Alc ...Continue Reading
January 20th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 20, 2025 A.A.'s MessageTo watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives—these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to th ...Continue Reading
January 19th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 19, 2025 Change ProfoundlyAfter we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and actions toward security—emotional security and financial security—commence to change profoundly. Our demand for emotional security, for our own way, had constantly thrown us into unworkable relations with other people. Though we were sometimes quite unconscious of this, the result always had been the same. Either we had tried to play God and dominate those about us, or we h ...Continue Reading
January 18th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 18, 2025 Unable to StopBut the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 39 Thought to Ponder . . .Pride in my intelligence blinded me to how much I did not know.   ...Continue Reading
January 17th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 17, 2025 Group of PrinciplesA.A.’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Foreward) p. 15 Thought to Ponder . . .A.A. is not something we join; it's a way of life. AA-related 'Alconym'S T E P S = Solutions Through Each Powerful Step. To ...Continue Reading
January 16th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 16, 2025 Step ThreeLike all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God—or, if you like, a Higher Power—into our lives. Faith, to be sure, is necessary, but faith alone can avail nothing. We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 34 Thought to Ponder . . .Willpower ... our will- ...Continue Reading
January 15th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 15, 2025 Instincts In CollisionWe might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have "harmed" other people. What kinds of "harm" do people do one another, anyway? To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. 80 Thought to Ponder . . .The ...Continue Reading
January 14th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 14, 2025 FaithFaith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now. Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 16 Thought to Ponder . . .It is when you act on faith that you actually have it. AA-related 'Alconym'F A I ...Continue Reading
January 13th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 13, 2025 Safe GuidanceThe persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 109 Thought to Ponder . . .Praying is asking God for help, meditating is listening for God's answer. AA-related 'Alconym'A S A P   ...Continue Reading
January 12th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 12, 2025 HumilityWhere humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity. This improved perception of humility starts another revolutionary change in our outlook. Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 74 Thought to Ponder . . .The difference between pride ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 11, 2025 Attitudes and ActionsWhy all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 24 Thought to Ponder . . .Sobriety without action is ...Continue Reading
January 10th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 10, 2025 Our Real PurposeAt the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 77 Thought to Ponder . . .Service puts feet on my prayers. AA-related 'Alconym'B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today? To Unsubscribe - Click Here_Subscription Reminder_ You'r ...Continue Reading
January 9th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 9, 2025 Not a TheoryWe ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible. So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, ...Continue Reading
January 8th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 8, 2025 GuidanceWe discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) pp. 104 - 105 Thought to Ponder . . .The Three "P's" -- ...Continue Reading
January 7th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 7, 2025 Controlled DrinkingWe do not like to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can quickly diagnose yourself. Step over to the nearest barroom and try some controlled drinking. Try to drink and stop abruptly. Try it more than once. It will not take long for you to decide, if you are honest with yourself about it. It may be worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp. 31 ...Continue Reading
January 6th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 6, 2025 Spiritual ConditionIt is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our activities. "How can I best serve Thee—Thy will (not mine) be done."- Alco ...Continue Reading
January 5th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)January 5, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~ To Run the ShowMost people try to live by self-propulsion. Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way. If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great. Everybody, including himself, would be pleased. Life would be wonderful.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Ho ...Continue Reading
January 4th 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 4, 2025 Again and AgainWe have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.’’ Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 33 Thought to Ponder . . .When we try to control our drinki ...Continue Reading
January 3rd 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 3, 2025 Depth and WeightFrothy emotional appeal seldom suffices. The message which can interest and hold these alcoholic people must have depth and weight. In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if they are to re-create their lives.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxviii Thought to Ponder . . .Hope leads to faith if you let it. AA-related 'Alconym'A B C = Acceptance, Belief ...Continue Reading
January 2nd 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 2, 2025 A.A.'s MessageThis brought a rush of 800 frantic inquiries into the little New York office which meanwhile had been established. Each inquiry was painstakingly answered; pamphlets and books were sent out. Businessmen, traveling out of existing groups, were referred to these prospective newcomers. New groups started up and it was found, to the astonishment of everyone, that A.A.’s message could be transmitted in the mail as well as by word of mouth.- Alco ...Continue Reading
January 1st 2025 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 1, 2025 A Higher PowerIn Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) pp. 108 - 109 Thought to Ponder . . .Relationships are built with communication; so we pray. AA-related 'Alconym'A S A P = Always Say ...Continue Reading
December 31st 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 31, 2024 Tradition One - UnityThe unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has. Our lives, the lives of all to come, depend squarely upon it. We stay whole, or A.A. dies. Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; our world arteries would no longer carry the life-giving grace of God; His gift to us would be spent aimlessly. Back again in their caves, alcoholics would reproach us and say, “What a great thing A.A. might h ...Continue Reading
December 30th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 30, 2024 Problems Pile UpThese allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxviii Thought to Ponder . . .The gritty pain of alcoholism is the traction of recovery. AA-re ...Continue Reading
December 29th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)December 29, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Old, Insidious InsanityUnless he took some drinks, he might not have the courage to scrape an acquaintance and would have a lonely week-end. Of course he couldn't drink, but why not sit hopefully at a table, a bottle of ginger ale before him? After all, had he not been sober six months now? Perhaps he could handle, say, three drinks—no more! Fear gripped him. He was on thin ice. Again it was the old, insidious insanity—that fir ...Continue Reading
December 28th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 28, 2024 ResentmentsFew people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 90 Thought to Ponder . . . ...Continue Reading
December 27th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 27, 2024 No FightShortly afterward I came home drunk. There had been no fight. Where had been my high resolve? I simply didn’t know. It hadn't even come to mind. Someone had pushed a drink my way, and I had taken it. Was I crazy? I began to wonder, for such an appalling lack of perspective seemed near being just that.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 5 Thought to Ponder . . .We are without defense against the first drink. AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading
December 26th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 26, 2024 InvestigationWhile the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is equally necessary that we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can. Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewa ...Continue Reading
December 25th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 25, 2024 Radiance of This PrayerWe treasure our "Serenity Prayer" because it brings a new light to us that can dissipate our oldtime and nearly fatal habit of fooling ourselves. In the radiance of this prayer we see that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster. We now know that we do not have to run away, nor ought we again try to overcome adversity by still another bulldozing power drive that can only push up obstacles before us faster than the ...Continue Reading
December 24th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 24, 2024 Act of Will"Personally, I take the attitude that I intend never to drink again. This is somewhat different from saying, 'I will never drink again.' The latter attitude sometimes gets people in trouble because it is undertaking on a personal basis to do what we alcoholics never could do. It is too much an act of will and leaves us too little room for the idea that God will release us from the drink obsession provided we follow the A.A. program.&quo ...Continue Reading
December 23rd 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 23, 2024 Reliance"Belief meant reliance, not defiance. In A.A. we saw the fruits of this belief: men and women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe. We saw them meet and transcend their other pains and trials. We saw them calmly accept impossible situations, seeking neither to run nor to recriminate. This was not only faith; it was faith that worked under all conditions."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 31 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading
December 22nd 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)December 22, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~ All PowerWithout help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power—that One is God. May you find Him now! Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 59 Thought to PonderWe will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H&nb ...Continue Reading
December 21st 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 21, 2024 Over and OverAfter they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctors Opinion,) p. xxix Thought to Ponder . . .Insa ...Continue Reading
December 20th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 20, 2024 My DisturbanceDid these perplexities beset me because of selfishness or unreasonable demands? Or, if my disturbance was seemingly caused by the behavior of others, why do I lack the ability to accept conditions I cannot change? These are the sort of fundamental inquiries that can disclose the source of my discomfort and indicate whether I may be able to alter my own conduct and so adjust myself serenely to self-discipline.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Trad ...Continue Reading
December 19th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 19, 2024 Admission and CorrectionBut there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion—anger, fear, jealousy, and the like. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers. This doesn't mean we need to wander morbidly around in the past. It requires an admission a ...Continue Reading
December 18th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 18, 2024 Solid Spiritual GroundSo our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking,if we have a legitimate reason for being there. . . Go or stay away, whichever seems best. But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good. Do not think of what you will get out of the occasion. Think of what you can bring to it. But if you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead!- Alcoh ...Continue Reading
December 17th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 17, 2024 Any ConceptionTell him exactly what happened to you. Stress the spiritual feature freely. If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception of God. He can choose any conception he likes, provided it makes sense to him. The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 93 Thou ...Continue Reading
December 16th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 16, 2024 AmendsWe should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God’s people we stand on our feet; we don’t crawl before anyone.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 83 Thought to Ponder . . .It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. AA-related 'Alconym'A A = Accountable Actions. To Unsubscribe - Click Here_Subscription Reminder_ ...Continue Reading
December 15th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)December 15, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~ PauseIn all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 40 - 41 Thought to PonderThe stillness of God speaks louder than a choir of ...Continue Reading
December 14th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 14, 2024 Painful PastThis painful past may be of infinite value to other families still struggling with their problem. We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124 Thought to Ponder . . .Showing others who suffer ...Continue Reading
December 13th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 13, 2024 A Vision of HumilityTo get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time. A whole lifetime geared to self-centeredness cannot be set in reverse all at once.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 73 Thought to Ponder . . .Rebellio ...Continue Reading
December 12th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 12, 2024 Progress is Our Aim"Day by day, we try to move a little toward God's perfection. So we need not be consumed by maudlin guilt for failure to achieve His likeness and image by Thursday next. Progress is our aim, and His perfection is the beacon, light-years away, that draws us on."- As Bill Sees It, No. 15 Thought to Ponder . . .Sobriety is not a destination, but an everlasting journey. AA-related 'Alconym'A B C = Accep ...Continue Reading
December 11th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 11, 2024 First AcceptedWe know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness and all its consequences. Until he so humbles himself, his sobriety—if any—will be precarious. Of real happiness he will find none at all. Proved beyond doubt by an immense experience, this is one of the facts of A.A. life.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 21 Thought to Ponder . . .The Three A's . ...Continue Reading
December 10th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 10, 2024 An UnderstandingStrangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours. Until such an understanding is reached, little or nothing can be accomplished.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) ...Continue Reading
December 9th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 9, 2024 It Engulfs AllBut not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life. It engulfs all whose lives touch the sufferer's. It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents—anyone can increase the list.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 18 Thought to Ponder . . .Right acti ...Continue Reading
December 8th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 8, 2024 My apologies for the late arrival of your Daily Thought today. ChoiceThe fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called willpower becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.- ~Alcoholics Anonymous ...Continue Reading
December 7th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 7, 2024 ProblemsWe have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it. For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125 Thought to Ponder . . .We need to share our pr ...Continue Reading
December 6th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 6, 2024 Thoroughly FollowedRarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58 Thought to Ponder . . .The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action. AA-related 'Alconym'A C T =   ...Continue Reading
December 5th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 5, 2024 IndispensableMost emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts. He can only be defeated by an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial. We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program.Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are ind ...Continue Reading
December 4th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 4, 2024 Inventory of My BlessingsOne exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mine -- both temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally displace the natural tendency to congratulate myself on whatever progress I may have been enabled to make in some areas of liv ...Continue Reading
December 3rd 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 3, 2024 A GlimpseThe moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs. We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 105 &nbs ...Continue Reading
December 2nd 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 2, 2024 DefectsSelf-righteous anger also can be very enjoyable. In a perverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us, for it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority. Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (S ...Continue Reading
December 1st 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 1, 2024 Building an ArchReturning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing what we have done. We thank God from the bottom of our heart that we know Him better. Taking this book down from our shelf we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps. Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.- Alcoholics Anonymous, ( ...Continue Reading
November 30th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 30, 2024 HarmonyCourtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come into harmony with practically anybody. When in doubt we can always pause, saying, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." And we can often ask ourselves, "Am I doing to others as I would have them do to me—today?"- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 93 Thought to Ponder . . .The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, Considerati ...Continue Reading
November 29th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 29, 2024 Tradition Eleven“Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.” To us, however, it represents far more than a sound public relations policy. It is more than a denial of self-seeking. This Tradition is a constant and practical reminder that personal ambition has no place in A.A. In it, each member becomes an active guardian of our Fellowship.- ...Continue Reading
November 28th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 28, 2024 A Full and Thankful HeartI try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.- As Bill Sees It, (A Full and Thankful Heart) No. 37 Thought to Ponder . . .When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. AA-related 'Alconym'H J F = Happy, Joyous, ...Continue Reading
November 27th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 27, 2024 Help Us Be WillingWe have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action,) p. 76 Thought to Ponder . . .Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door. AA-related 'Alconym'L E T   ...Continue Reading
November 26th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 26, 2024 Self-deceivedIn no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward. We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." The love of God and man we understood not at all. Therefore we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving enough grace to restore u ...Continue Reading
November 25th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 25, 2024 Step EightEvery A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake. To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. ...Continue Reading
November 24th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)November 24, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~ A Common SolutionThe feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined. The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A So ...Continue Reading
November 23rd 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 23, 2024 Every Imaginable RemedyWe are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp. 30 - 31 Thought to Ponder . . .Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic ...Continue Reading
November 22nd 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 22, 2024 The Drinking GameWhen he sees you know all about the drinking game, commence to describe yourself as an alcoholic. Tell him how baffled you were, how you finally learned that you were sick. Give him an account of the struggles you made to stop. Show him the mental twist which leads to the first drink of a spree.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) pp. 91 - 92 Thought to Ponder . . .I am responsible for the effort -- not the outcome. &nbs ...Continue Reading
November 21st 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 21, 2024 A Useful ProgramMany could recover if they had the opportunity we have enjoyed. How then shall we present that which has been so freely given us? We have concluded to publish an anonymous volume setting forth the problem as we see it. We shall bring to the task our combined experience and knowledge. This should suggest a useful program for anyone concerned with a drinking problem.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 19 Thought to Pond ...Continue Reading
November 20th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 20, 2024 AngerIf we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66 Thought to Ponder . . .Anger is just one letter away from danger. AA-related 'Alconym'C A L M = Cause Anger Left Me. To Unsubscribe - Click Here_Subscription Reminder_ You're Subs ...Continue Reading
November 19th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 19, 2024 Countless Vain AttemptsTherefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30 T ...Continue Reading
November 18th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 18, 2024 A Sick ManWhen a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done." We avoid retaliation or argument. We wouldn’t treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. ...Continue Reading
November 17th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)November 17, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~ True IndependenceAnd the facts seem to be these: The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are. Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means of gaining true independence of the spirit.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 36 Thought to PonderAvoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door. AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H = ...Continue Reading
November 16th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 16, 2024 Ghosts of YesterdayIf we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever. We have to talk to somebody about them.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five ...Continue Reading
November 15th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 15, 2024 Make a DecisionTherefore, we who are alcoholics can consider ourselves fortunate indeed. Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to look for something better. So it is by circumstance rather than any virtue that we have been driven to AA, have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a H ...Continue Reading
November 14th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 14, 2024 A RequestPrayer, as commonly understood, is a petition to God. Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need. And we think that the whole range of our needs is well defined by that part of Step Eleven which says: “. . . knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” A request for this fits in any part of our day.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step E ...Continue Reading
November 13th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 13, 2024 Program of ActionThough I had been only a nominal churchman, their proposals were not, intellectually, hard to swallow. But the program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic. It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window. That was not easy. But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be.- Alc ...Continue Reading
November 12th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 12, 2024 Are We Ready?If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open- mindedness. We shall need to raise our eyes toward perfection, and be ready to walk in that direction. It will seldom matter how haltingly we walk. The only question will be "Are we ready?"- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) p. 68 Thought to Ponder . . .What have I bee ...Continue Reading
November 11th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 11, 2024 True KinshipWe thought the isolation problem had been solved. But we soon discovered that while we weren't alone any more in a social sense, we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness. Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong. Step Five was the answer. It was the beginning of true kinship with man and God.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, ...Continue Reading
November 10th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)November 10, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Our Own ConceptionMuch to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another’s conception of God. Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him. As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we to ...Continue Reading
November 9th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 9, 2024 ForgivenessOften it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it, too.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 58 &nbs ...Continue Reading
November 8th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 8, 2024 Withholding NothingWe pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (In ...Continue Reading
November 7th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 7, 2024 Meditation and PrayerWe liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done miracles. But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong. Of course we finally did experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different; in fact we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation and prayer.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (St ...Continue Reading
November 6th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 6, 2024 To Outgrow FearThe verdict of the ages is that faith means courage. All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do. We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68 Thought to Ponder . . .Fear is not an admission of weakness; fear is an oppo ...Continue Reading
November 5th 2024 UTC
AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 5, 2024 Tradition Three“The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.” The answer, now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity itself. At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic’s full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery. Who dared to be judge, jury, and executioner of his own sick brother? - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Three) p. 141 ...Continue Reading