AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 18, 2022 Prayer All of us, without exception, pass through times when we can pray only with the greatest exertion of will. Occasionally we go even further than this. We are seized with a rebellion so sickening that we simply won't pray. When these things happen we should not think too ill of ourselves. We should simply resume prayer as soon as we can, doing what we know to be good for us. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 105 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 17, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Willingness But now it appears that there are certain things which only the individual can do. All by himself, and in the light of his own circumstances, he needs to develop the quality of willingness. When he acquires willingness, he is the only one who can make the decision to exert himself. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 40  Thought to Ponder What have I been given today? Am I willing to reach out an ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 16, 2022 Agitated Or Doubtful As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 87 - 88 Thought to Ponder I listen for direction no ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 15, 2022 Amazingly Lifted Up But I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day. Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair. On talking to a man there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet. It is a design for living that works in rough going. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 15 Thought to Ponder Serving God by serving other people. AA-related 'Alconym' T R U S T   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 14, 2022 Quiet That Disturbance We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 47 Thought to Ponder Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 13, 2022 Faith Without Works When 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 can't; God can; ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 12, 2022 Faith Without Works Faith 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 St ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 11, 2022 Direct Contact In 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 A Prayer. Tha ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 10, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Step Two "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. - Twelve Steps and Twelve T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 9, 2022 Discipline It works—it really does. We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined. But this is not all. There is action and more action. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 88 Thought to Ponder Motivation may get you going, but discipline keeps you growing. AA-related 'Alconym' A C T  =   Action Changes Things. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 8, 2022 From Your Own Experience If 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 Trust God. Clean house. Help others. AA-related 'Alconym' N E W  =   Nothing Else Worked. Thanks to all of ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 7, 2022 Guidance For Our Lives We 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

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 6, 2022 Vital To Permanent Recovery But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth’s description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster. He sobered, never to drink again up to the moment of his death in 1950. This seemed to prove that one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could. It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic wit ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 5, 2022 Phenomenon of Craving All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence. - Alcoholic ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 4, 2022 Freedom Upon therapy for the alcoholic himself, we surely have no monopoly. Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward to Second Edition) p. xxi Thought to Ponder Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession. AA-related 'Alconym' F R E E  =   ...Continue Reading