AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 4, 2022 Willingness to Believe Let us make haste to reassure you. We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 46 Thought to Ponder I came; I came to; I came to believe. AA-related 'Alconym' W I L L I N G ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 3, 2022 Problems We 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 The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptan ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 2, 2022 To Try Repeatedly "This is the Step that separates the men from the boys." So declares a well-loved clergyman who happens to be one of A.A.'s greatest friends. He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults—without any reservations whatever—has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 1, 2022 Truth We 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 Times change, alcoholism doesn't. AA-related ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 31, 2022 Forgiveness Often 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 forgive- ness 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 Thou ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 30, 2022 Consequences In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 37 Thought to Ponder When I choose the behavior, I choose the consequences. AA-r ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 29, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Lack of Power Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that’s exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your pro ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 28, 2022 Unselfishness and Love Since 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 for the future ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 27, 2022 Dependence Upon God When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 116 Thought to Ponder The will of God will never take me where the grace of God will not protect me. AA-related 'Alconym' F A I T H   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 26, 2022 Step Six We 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 The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us. AA-related 'Alconym' H O W  =   Honest, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 25, 2022 Our Newfound Knowledge Steps 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 Traditi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 24, 2022 Power of Choice He 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 Solution) pp. 23 - 24 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 23, 2022 New Attitudes If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care. These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply shaken by the shortcomings of others or by any calamity not of our own making. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 116 Thought to Ponder I never imagined that the g ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 22, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Blessings Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 95  Thought to Ponder Gratitude is a most effective painkiller for the alcoholic.  AA-related 'Alconym' B E S T  =  Been En ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 21, 2022 Emotional Sobriety Thus I think it can work out with emotional sobriety. If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God’s help, continually surrender these hobbling demands. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to Twelfth Step ourselves and others into emotional sobriety. - A.A. Grapevine, January 1958 Thought to ...Continue Reading