AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 30, 2021 Inspiration and Reliance Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 87 Thought to Ponder The Three "P's ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 29, 2021 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 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 28, 2021 Vain Attempts Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30 Thought to Ponder I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than g ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 27, 2021 Change 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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84 Thought to Ponder Life will take on new meaning. AA-related 'Alconym' F R E E  =   Fortunate ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 26, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Great Reality 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. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 55  Thought to Ponder I saw, I felt, I believed.  AA-related 'Alconym' W I L L I N G  =  When I Live Life, I Need God. A Member Share ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 25, 2021 Laughter So we think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness.Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we bust into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But why shouldn’t we laugh? We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 132 Thought to Ponder Take time to laugh -- it is the music of the soul. AA-related 'Alconym' H J F  =   Happy, Joyous,&nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) Dearest Readers, my deepest apologies for yesterday's Daily Thought not being sent.  I made an error in the scheduling date for it to send. Due to having very dusty work done in our home all day yesterday, I was unable to get to my computer until this morning and saw that it did not send.  Again, I'm so very sorry. September 23, 2021 Faith and Action But he will be curious to learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to wor ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 24, 2021 Fearful At heart we had all been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond our depth and ability. The result was the same—all of us had nearly perished in a sea of alcohol. But today, in well-matured A.A.'s, these distorted drives have been restored to something like their true purpose and direction. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Tra ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 22, 2021 This Power Like myself, he had admitted complete defeat. Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known! Had this power originated in him? Obviously it had not. There had been no more power in him than there was in me at that minute; and this was none at all. That floored me. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 11 Thought to Ponder No God, no peace - ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 21, 2021 Relationship With God Let 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-rela ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 20, 2021 Astonished To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have. This is particularly true of women. Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years. Certain drinkers, who would be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished at their inability to stop. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 33 Thought to Ponder When ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 19, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Hitting Bottom Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 24  Thought to Ponder Sobriet ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 18, 2021 I'm sorry for the late arrival of your Daily Thought today. We should be back on track tomorrow. Willing to Believe If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception of God. He can choose any conception he likes, provided it makes sense to him. The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working W ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 17, 2021 Progress If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. That is something we are supposed to be willing to work toward ourselves. He asks only that we try as best we know how to make progress in the building of character. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) p. 65 Thought to Ponder Character is what I am; reputation is what people think I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 16, 2021 Our Health God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 133 Thought ...Continue Reading