AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

July 6, 2025
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Half Measures
Remember that we deal with alcohol—cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without 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) pp. 58 - 59
 

Thought to Ponder
We thought we could find an easier, softer way.
But we could not.
 

AA-related 'Alconym'
A A W O L  =  A A Way Of Life.
 

A Member Shares:
Good Morning. I am Eddy and I am an alcoholic. I almost killed myself trying to find an easier, softer way. I tried all of the things in the Big Book like changing what I drank, controlling it etc. There isn't an easier, softer way but I sure did search for it. When I read this today I was more aware of the behavior and how that same defect of looking for the easier, softer way seemed powerful early on in my sobriety. I tried working the steps that way. Looking for an easier way to do them. Holding onto some things while letting the easy stuff go. Trusting God a little but not having faith enough to surrender. Admitting I was powerless but still trying to control everything even down to how I did amends and who I did them with. I searched for the easier, softer way a lot. It took some time for me to see that the Big Book was right. Half measures availed me nothing. I knew I had to do the steps again and do them with all that I've got. I was over a year sober when that happened. Some would say how embarrassing or something else. But I didn't find it embarrassing because I could feel everything I tried to hold back pressing on me in sobriety and I wanted to be free from it. Half measures were keeping me sick. When I did finally do this the way it is written and in order something gave way in me and I felt free from it. Still do to this day. And I can only thank God and have gratitude to the room, the program and all of you for sticking with it and showing me how it is done right. Half measures did avail me nothing. But the full measures gave me things that are hard to describe like love and serenity and peace and hope and ..... I'm sure you get the idea. Thanks for being here this morning.

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