AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 29, 2021 Personality Change "It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change.". - As Bill Sees It, (Letter 1940) p. 1 Thought to Ponder If I don't change, my sobriety date will. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 28, 2021 Uniquely Useful Ministers and doctors are competent and you can learn much from them if you wish, but it happens that because of your own drinking experience you can be uniquely useful to other alcoholics. So cooperate; never criticize. To be helpful is our only aim. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89 Thought to Ponder Trust God. Clean house. Help others. AA-related 'Alconym' H O P E  =   Hold On, Possibilities Exist. Thank ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 27, 2021 No Boundaries Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. But its object is always the same: to improve our conscious contact with God, with His grace, wisdom, and love. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 101 Thoug ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 26, 2021 Real Tolerance Most 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 Love and tolerance of others is our code. AA-related 'Alconym' P U T  = ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 25, 2021 Extravagant Promises? Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We 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 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 24, 2021 Troubles Overcome I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out. I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities. Business and professional men have regained their standing. There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 23, 2021 Delighted We 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, (Into Actio ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 22, 2021 Common Solution The 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. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer fro ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 21, 2021 To Summon the Faith 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. Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step S ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 20, 2021 A Mighty Beginning And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not. His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed. - Twelve Stepsand Twelve Traditions, (Step ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 19, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ The Jumping-Off Place 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  Thought to Ponder When I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 18, 2021 Social Occasions 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! - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 102 Thought to Ponder Life didn't end when I got sober, it started.. AA-r ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 17, 2021 Transformed In 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 We're not living just to be sober; we are living to lear ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 16, 2021 Freedom From Fear It did not matter too much what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was. . . When, with God's help we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 122 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 15, 2021 Spiritual Principles A.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 The Twelve Steps -- a manuscript for rational living. AA-related 'Alconym' S T E P S  =   Solutions Through Each Powerful Step. Thanks to all o ...Continue Reading