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Daily Thought 11.10.24

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

Daily Thought 11.09.24

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

Daily Thought11.08.24

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

Daily Thought 11.07.24

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

Daily Thought 11.06.24

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

Daily Thought 11.05.24

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

Daily Thought 11.04.24

November 4th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 4, 2024  One More AttemptThe old pleasures were gone. They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt—and one more failure.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision for You) p. 151  Thought to Ponder . . .When all else fails, try following directions in ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 11.03.24

November 3rd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)November 3, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Tradition TenAlcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy. In this respect, we do not enter into public controversy, because we know that our Society will perish if it does. We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.- Twelve Step ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 11.02.24

November 2nd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 2, 2024  Quick InventoryIn all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness to admit when the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere. We need not be discouraged when we fall into the error of our old ways, for these disciplines are not easy. We shall look for progress, not for perfection.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 91  Thought to Ponder . . .Nothin ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 11.01.24

November 1st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 1, 2024  Character BuildingSeldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would like to strive for whether our instinctual needs were met or not. We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72  Thought to Ponder . . .Character is what I am; reputation is what people think I am.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.31.24

October 31st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 31, 2024  HumilityHumility, as a word and as an ideal, has a very bad time of it in our world. Not only is the idea misunderstood; the word itself is often intensely disliked. Many people haven’t even a nodding acquaintance with humility as a way of life. Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man’s pride in his own achievements.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 70  Thought to Ponder . . .Humility ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.30.24

October 30th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 30, 2024  ResentmentsIn dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry. We asked ourselves why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened. So we were sore. We were "burned up."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 64 - 65  Thought to Ponder . . .The road t ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.29.24

October 29th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 29, 2024  ControlWe learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30  Thought to Ponder . . .When we try to control ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.28.24

October 28th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 28, 2024  Personal RelationshipsSteps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relationships. First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Tradi ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.27.24

October 27th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)October 27, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Absolute CertaintyThe central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 25  Thought to PonderNobody ever found recovery as a result of an intellectual awakening.  AA-related 'Alconym'A ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.26.24

October 26th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 26, 2024  Spot, Admit and CorrectLearning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living. An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 95  Thought to Ponder . . .The first step in overcoming mistakes is to admit them.  AA-rela ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.25.24

October 25th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 25, 2024  Great RealityWe finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 55  Thought to Ponder . . .People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about.  AA-related 'Alconym'G I F T  = &nbs ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.24.24

October 24th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 24, 2024  Self-Pity"Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudlin form of martyrdom, which we can ill afford."- As Bill Sees It, (Maudlin Martyrdom) No. 238  Thought to Ponder . . .Self-pity is followed by isolation is followed by a drink.  AA ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.23.24

October 23rd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 23, 2024  More Spiritual DevelopmentLike most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they come. But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and more continuous problems of life. Our answer is in still more spiritual development. Only by this means can we improve our chances for really happy and useful living.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114  Thought to Ponder . . .Faith is like a muscle ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.22.24

October 22nd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 22, 2024  The Old GameInwardly he would give anything to take half a dozen drinks and get away with them. He will presently try the old game again, for he isn’t happy about his sobriety. He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 152   ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.21.24

October 21st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 21, 2024  Firm BedrockBut upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 21  Thought to Ponder . . .The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptanc ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.20.24

October 20th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)October 20, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  ChangeChange is the characteristic of all growth. From drinking to sobriety, from dishonesty to honesty, from conflict to serenity, from hate to love, from childish dependence to adult responsibility -- all this and infinitely more represent change for the better.- As Bill Sees It, (Only God is Unchanging) No. 76  Thought to PonderChange is inevitable, growth is optional.  AA-related 'Alconym'A B C  =  Accept ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.19.24

October 19th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 19, 2024  The Chilling VaporThe less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision for You) p. 151  Thought to Ponder . . .Alcoholic drinking's three stages: Impulsive, Compulsive, Repulsive.  AA-related 'Alconym'C H A O S  = ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.18.24

October 18th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 18, 2024  Facts of LifeThe A.A. answer to these questions about living is “Yes, all of these things are possible.” We know this because we see monotony, pain, and even calamity turned to good use by those who keep on trying to practice A.A.'s Twelve Steps. And if these are facts of life for the many alcoholics who have recovered in A.A., they can become the facts of life for many more.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 112  Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.17.24

October 17th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 17, 2024  Off the BeamWithout necessarily taking that first drink, we often get quite far off the beam. Our troubles sometimes begin with indifference. We are sober and happy in our A.A. work. Things go well at home and office. We naturally congratulate ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial point of view. We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.’s Twelve Steps for us. We are doing f ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.16.24

October 16th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 16, 2024  Thoroughness and HonestyWe went back through our lives. Nothing counted but thoroughness and honesty. When we were finished we considered it carefully. The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong. To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 65 - 66  Thought to Ponder . . .It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.  AA-related 'Alco ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.15.24

October 15th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 15, 2024  Practice These Principles"Sobriety is my sole responsibility. After all, I'm a pretty fine chap, expect for my drinking. Give me sobriety, and I've got it made!" As long as our friend clings to this comfortable alibi, he will make so little progress with his real life problems and responsibilities that he stands in a fair way to get drunk again. This is why A.A.'s Twelfth Step urges that we 'practice these principles in all our affairs.' - As ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.14.24

October 14th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 14, 2024  An IllnessContinue to speak of alcoholism as an illness, a fatal malady. Talk about the conditions of body and mind which accompany it. Keep his attention focussed mainly on your personal experience. Explain that many are doomed who never realize their predicament.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 92  Thought to Ponder . . .For his sake, we do recount and almost relive the horrors of our past.  AA-related 'Alconym'E S H  = ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.13.24

October 13th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)October 13, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  A Better WayPerhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68  Thought t ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.12.24

October 12th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 12, 2024  Practice These PrinciplesOur basic troubles are the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114  Thought to Ponder . . .Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it gr ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.11.24

October 11th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 11, 2024  Precious QualityIndeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps. For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 70  Thought to P ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.10.24

October 10th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 10, 2024  Soundness of Mind"Sanity" is defined as "soundness of mind." Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive behavior, whether the destruction fell on the dining-room furniture or his own moral fiber, can claim "soundness of mind" for himself. Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (S ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.09.24

October 9th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 9, 2024  Remarkable and UnexpectedAlmost 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 " ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.08.24

October 8th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 8, 2024  ExperienceHenry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is the thing of supreme value in life. That is true only if one is willing to turn the past to good account. We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124  Thought to Ponder . . .If you want to change who you are, change what you do.  AA-related 'Alconym'A C T  =   Action ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.07.24

October 7th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 7, 2024  A Waste of TimeDo not be discouraged if your prospect does not respond at once. Search out another alcoholic and try again. You are sure to find someone desperate enough to accept with eagerness what you offer. We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you. If you leave such a person alone, he may soon become convinced that he cannot recover by himself. To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some ot ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.06.24

October 6th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 6, 2024  Misuse of WillpowerIt is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation.Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 40  Thought to Ponder . . .I can't do His will my way.  AA-rela ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.05.24

October 5th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 5, 2024  Realm of SpiritWe found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 46  Thought to Ponder . . .Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  =   For All I Trust Hi ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.04.24

October 4th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 4, 2024  Like a ThunderboltOur friend’s gorge rose as he bitterly cried out: "If there is a God, He certainly hasn’t done anything for me!’’ But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?" While pondering the answer he felt as though he lived in hell. Then, like a thunderbolt, a great thought came. It crowded out all else: "Who are you to say there is no God?& ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.03.24

October 3rd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 3, 2024  A Strenuous EffortNext we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us. Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions.- Alco ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.02.24

October 2nd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 2, 2024  First AwakeningI had my first awakening in A.A. The speaker said, "If you’re an apple, you can be the best apple you can be, but you can never be an orange." I was an apple all right, and for the first time I understood that I had spent my life trying to be an orange. I looked around at a room filled with apples and, if I was understanding the speaker, most of them were no longer trying to be oranges.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Window Of Opportuni ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 10.01.24

October 1st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 1, 2024  Spiritual TermsDo not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 47  Thought to Ponder . . .I came; I came to; I came to believe.  AA-related 'Alconym'G O D  =   Good Orderly Direction. ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.30.24

September 30th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 30, 2024  Prepare OurselvesThis feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 62  Thought to Ponder . . .Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high.  AA-related 'Alconym'H O W   ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.29.24

September 29th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 29, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  In God's HandsWhen we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands were better than anything we could have planned. Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 100  Thought to PonderReliance on God enables me to match calamity with ser ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.28.24

September 28th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 28, 2024  Destructive ObsessionsSo far as alcoholics are concerned, A.A. would go even further. Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to another human being we could not stay sober. It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) pp. 56 - 57  Thought to Ponder . . .If we skip this vital step, we may ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.27.24

September 27th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 27, 2024  Wish To Be HelpfulWe are not an organization in the conventional sense of the word. There are no fees or dues whatsoever. The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. We are not allied with any particular faith, sect or denomination, nor do we oppose anyone. We simply wish to be helpful to those who are afflicted.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward to First Edition) pp. xiii - xiv  Thought to Ponder . . .To be helpful i ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.26.24

September 26th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 26, 2024  A Wider MeaningBut when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about humility commences to have a wider meaning. By this time in all probability we have gained some measure of release from our more devastating handicaps. We enjoy moments in which there is something like real peace of mind.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 74 ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.25.24

September 25th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 25, 2024  It Really WorkedThere is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 25  Thought to Ponder . . .We need to uncover to recover.  A ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.24.24

September 24th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 24, 2024  Reliance"When we encountered A.A., the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no time had we asked what God's will was for us; instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not; defiance."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 31  Thought to Ponder . . .We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done. ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.23.24

September 23rd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 23, 2024  In the StillnessIn 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 Ponder . . .Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenit ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.22.24

September 22nd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 22, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  The Dark PastShowing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124  Thought to PonderWe will not regret the past nor wish to sh ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.21.24

September 21st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 21, 2024  What an Order!Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60  Thought to Ponder . . .We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.  AA-related 'Alconym'A R T ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.20.24

September 20th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 20, 2024  The Great FactAsk Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 164  Thought to Ponder . . .Trust God ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.19.24

September 19th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 19, 2024  A Spiritual AwakeningIn a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself. He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought himself quite incapable.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 107  Thought to Ponder . . .The greatest gift that can come to a ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.18.24

September 18th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 18, 2024  Prayer and MeditationThose of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul.- Twelve St ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.17.24

September 17th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 17, 2024  Step TenMore experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism. For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 88  Thought to Ponder . . .I can’t fix ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.16.24

September 16th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 16, 2024  Making AmendsWe are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do. His faults are not discussed. We stick to our own. If our manner is calm, frank, and open, we will be gratified with the result.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 77 - 78  Thought to Ponder . . .It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.15.24

September 15th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 15, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  AmendsWe have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. We subjected ourselves to a drastic self-appraisal. Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76  Thought to PonderDon't mess up an amend with an excuse.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =  Accountable Actions.  A Me ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.14.24

September 14th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 14, 2024  I Am Now WillingWhen ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen." We have then completed Step Seven.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76  Thought to Ponder . . .I don ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.13.24

September 13th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 13, 2024  Step Six - WillingnessWe 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 . . .I can't. God can. I'll ask Him to.  AA-related 'Alconym'S T E P S  =   ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.12.24

September 12th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 12, 2024  Step FiveWe will be more reconciled to discussing ourselves with another person when we see good reasons why we should do so. The best reason first: If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. Trying to avoid this humbling experience, they have turned to easier methods. Almost invariably they got drunk.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 72 ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.11.24

September 11th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 11, 2024  ResentmentsThis was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 66 - 67  Thought to Ponder . . ."God save me from being angry. Thy will ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.10.24

September 10th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 10, 2024  The KeystoneFirst 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 . . .Happiness ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.09.24

September 9th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 9, 2024  Faith Without WorksFaith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.08.24

September 8th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 8, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~Any LengthIf you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it—then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58  Thought to PonderWhat have I been given today? Am ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.07.24

September 7th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 7, 2024  One Hundred Percent Hopeless"As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help. Had you offered yourselves as patients at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it. People like you are too heartbreaking. Though not a religious person, I have profound respect for the spiritual approach in such cases as yours. For most cases, there is vir ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.06.24

September 6th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 6, 2024  We Ask GodOn awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong m ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.05.24

September 5th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 5, 2024  No Middle-of-the-Road SolutionIf you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of- the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.04.24

September 4th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 4, 2024I'm sorry for the late arrival of your Daily Thought today. I'll do my best to get it out on time tomorrow.  Hopeless FeatureIf you are satisfied that he is a real alcoholic, begin to dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady. Show him, from your own experience, how the queer mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of the will power.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 92  Thought to Ponder . . .We nee ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.03.24

September 3rd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 3, 2024  Misuse of WillpowerAll of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust, to God's will. It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intentio ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.02.24

September 2nd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 2, 2024  Resentments and Prayer"Even when you don’t really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Freedom From Bondage) p. 552   ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 09.01.24

September 1st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 1, 2024  WatchContinue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help. Love and tolerance of others is our code.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84  Thought to Ponder . . .Patience, tolerance, understanding and love are the watchword ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.31.24

August 31st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 31, 2024  His Will and His LifeSo how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power? He made a beginning, we have seen, when he commenced to rely upon A.A. for the solution of his alcohol problem. By now, though, the chances are that he has become convinced that he has more problems than alcohol, and that some of these refuse to be solved by all the sheer personal determination and courage he can muster.- Twelve S ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.30.24

August 30th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 30, 2024  Happy, Joyous and FreeWe are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 133  Thought to Ponder . . .Happiness and peace of mind are always here, open and free to anyone.  AA-related 'Alconym'F R E E  =   Fo ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.29.24

August 29th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 29, 2024  A Genuine RelianceWe could actually have earnest religious beliefs which remained barren because we were still trying to play God ourselves. As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72  Thought to Ponder . . .Take a walk with God. He will meet you ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.28.24

August 28th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 28, 2024  A Fearless Moral InventoryWhen AA suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look inside himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of AA's who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeyme ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.27.24

August 27th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 27, 2024  "Big-shot-ism"Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 92   ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.26.24

August 26th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 26, 2024  The Grace of GodWhen men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) p. 64 ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.25.24

August 25th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)August 25, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~A Spiritual AwakeningWhen a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being. He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.24.24

August 24th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 24, 2024  PainstakingIf we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 83 - 84  Thought to Ponder . . .We cannot find peace by avoiding life.  AA-related 'Alconym'S T E P  = & ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.23.24

August 23rd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 23, 2024  The Home Has SufferedSince the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there. He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and love under his own roof. We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 127  Thought to Ponder . . .Right actions eac ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.22.24

August 22nd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 22, 2024  Bare BeginningIs sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life -- the one that did not work -- for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.- As Bill Sees It, (A New Life) No. 8  Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.21.24

August 21st 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 21, 2024  The Big BookIf you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: “Yes, that happened to me”; or, more important, “Yes, I’ve felt like that”; or, most important, “Yes, I believe this program can work for me too.”- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Preface to Fourth Edition) p. xii  Thought to Ponder . . .If you want to drink, that's your business. If you want to stop AA can help.  AA-related ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.20.24

August 20th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 20, 2024  The Inventory Was OursThough a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were we to blame? The inventory was ours, not the other man’s. When we saw our faults we listed them. We placed them before us in black and white. We admitted our wrongs honestly and were willing to set these matters straight.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67  Thought to Ponder . . .The first step in ov ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.19.24

August 19th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 19, 2024  The Joy of Good LivingFor 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. Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125  Thought to Ponder . . .The Thre ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.18.24

August 18th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)August 18, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Lost the Power of ChoiceHe has lost control. At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected. The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solut ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.17.24

August 17th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 17, 2024  Tradition EightAlcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional. We define professionalism as the occupation of counseling alcoholics for fees or hire. But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for which we may otherwise have to engage nonalcoholics. Such special services may be well recompensed. But our usual A.A. "12th Step" work is never to be paid for.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Twelve Tradition ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.16.24

August 16th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 16, 2024  A Vital PartOutline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him. It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery. Actually, he may be helping you more than you are helping him.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 94  Thought to Ponder . . .We must give it away to ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.15.24

August 15th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 15, 2024  AcceptanceAnd acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Acceptance Was The Answer) p. 417  Thought to Ponder . . .My serenity is directly proportional to ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.14.24

August 14th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 14, 2024  UnityThus has it been with A.A. By faith and by works we have been able to build upon the lessons of an incredible experience. They live today in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, which—God willing—shall sustain us in unity for so long as He may need us.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition One) p. 131  Thought to Ponder . . .There is no strength without unity.  AA-related 'Alconym'U S  =   United Spirits. &nbs ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.13.24

August 13th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 13, 2024  AmendsAlthough these reparations take innumerable forms, there are some general principles which we find guiding. Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 79  Thought to Ponder . . .It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes an ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.12.24

August 12th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 12, 2024  Our Own Willful DesiresWhen we habitually try to manipulate others to our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily. Then we develop hurt feelings, a sense of persecution, and a desire to retaliate. As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant. We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society.- ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.11.24

August 11th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)August 11, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~Essential RequirementsMy friend promised when these things were done I would enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems. Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements. Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-c ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.10.24

August 10th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 10, 2024  Revolutionary ChangeThey flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking. In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.- Alcoho ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.09.24

August 9th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 9, 2024  Intelligence and WillpowerWe are certain that our intelligence, backed by willpower, can rightly control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in. This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work? One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 37  T ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.08.24

August 8th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 8, 2024  Actual ExperienceHe gave me information about the subject of alcoholism which was undoubtedly helpful. Of far more importance was the fact that he was the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience. In other words, he talked my language. He knew all the answers, and certainly not because he had picked them up in his reading.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Doctor Bob's Nightmar ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.07.24

August 7th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 7, 2024  Not Dependent Upon PeopleLet no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his family back. This just isn’t so. In some cases the wife will never come back for one reason or another. Remind the prospect that his recovery is not dependent upon people. It is dependent upon his relationship with God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) pp. 99 - 100  Thought to Ponder . . .Dependence on God is our chief source of strength.  AA-related 'A ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.06.24

August 6th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 6, 2024  Too Much TimeWe find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you. If you leave such a person alone, he may soon become convinced that he cannot recover by himself. To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be happy. One of our Fellowship failed entirely with his first half dozen prospects. He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he might have dep ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.05.24

August 5th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 5, 2024  The Elder StatesmanThe elder statesman is the one who sees the wisdom of the group’s decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound, and who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines patiently awaiting developments.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Two) p. 135  Thought to Ponder . . ."Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern."  AA ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.04.24

August 4th 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 4, 2024  Intuitively KnowWe will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84  Thought to Ponder . . .What is now proved was once only imagined. ...Continue Reading

Daily Thought 08.03.24

August 3rd 2024 UTC

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 3, 2024  Sobriety and SerenitySomeone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) pp. 93 - 94  Thought to Ponder . . .We're not living just to be sober; we are living to learn, to serve, and to love. &n ...Continue Reading
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