AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 14, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Truth About Yourself In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning. That being so you have swallowed and digested some big chunks of truth about yourself. - Alcoholics An ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 13, 2021 Progressive Illness All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals—usually brief—were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30 Thought to Ponder Alcoholi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 12, 2021 Admission of Hopelessness Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did not succeed because they could not make the admission of hopelessness. It is a tremendous satisfaction to record that in the following years this changed. Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their alcoholism. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 23 Thought to Ponder The 3 A’s -- A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 11, 2021 Personal Powerlessness Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of providence can remove it from us. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 21 Thought to Ponder Within our wonderful new world, we have f ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 10, 2021 Our Thought-Life On 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 w ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 9, 2021 Not Crusaders Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the auspices of The American Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: “Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders; not a temperance society. They know that they must never drink. They help others with similar problems . . . In this atmosphere the alcoholic often overcomes his excessive concentration upon himself. Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work wit ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 8, 2021 Progress 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. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60 Thought to Ponder Give me the courage to be imperfect. AA-related 'Alconym' K I S ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 7, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Learning Daily Learning 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 Today, my brain has cleared with the grace of clarity.& ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 6, 2021 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. "Faith without works is dead." - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 88 Thought to Ponder Motivation may get you going, but discipline keeps you growing. AA-related 'Alconym' T R U S T  =   Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions. Thanks to a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 5, 2021 Limitations The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate. Many of us who had thought ourselves religious awoke to the limitations of this attitude. Refusing to place God first, we had deprived ourselves of His help. But now the words “Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works” began to carry bright promise and meaning. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 75 Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 4, 2021 One More Attempt The 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 we try to control our drinking, we have already lost ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 3, 2021 A Glimpse The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs. We know that God lovingly watches over us. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 105 Thought to Ponder I want the gift of an untroubled mind. AA-related 'Alconym' B E ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 2, 2021 Resentments Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 90 Thought to Ponder Resentment ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 1, 2021 Wanting Humility We saw we needn't always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility. It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering. A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 75 Thought to Ponder Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still re ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 31, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Self-Sufficiency Our whole treasured philosophy of self-sufficiency had to be cast aside. This had not been done with old-fashioned willpower; it was instead a matter of developing the willingness to accept these new facts of living. We neither ran nor fought. But accept we did. And then we were free. - BEST OF THE GRAPEVINE, (Vol. I) p. 198  Thought to Ponder Asking for help is a case of humility and not a cause for humil ...Continue Reading