AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 31, 2021 Prayer Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Tr ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 30, 2021 Program of Action The program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic. It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window. That was not easy. But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 42 Thought to Ponder What is now proved was once only imagine ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 29, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Fit Spiritual Condition We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 85  Thought to Ponder If you want to stay protected ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 28, 2021 Emotionally Secure It became clear that if we ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those around us. We saw that we would need to give constantly of ourselves without demands for repayment. When we persistently did this we gradually found that people were attracted to us as never before. And even ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 27, 2021 Prepare Ourselves This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 62 Thought to Ponder Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high. AA-related 'Alconym' C H A N G E D  =   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 26, 2021 The Big Book Further on, clear-cut directions are given showing how we recovered. These are followed by forty-two personal experiences. . . Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing." - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 29 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 25, 2021 Lessons and Courage 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. He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 24, 2021 Step Eight Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake. To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. 7 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 23, 2021 Our Intelligence We are certain that our intelligence, backed by willpower, can rightly control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in. This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work? One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 37 Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 22, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ A Psychic Change On the other hand—and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand—once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 21, 2021 Worth Knowing Better 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' P R A Y E R  =   Praying Regul ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 20, 2021 Quick Inventory The quick inventory is aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes. In all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness to admit when the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 91 Thought to Ponder Nothing pays off li ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 19, 2021 "Justifiable" Anger It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What about "justifiable" anger? If somebody cheats us, aren't we entitled to be mad? Can't we be properly angry with self-righteous folk? For us of A.A. these are dangerous exceptions. We ha ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 18, 2021 No Such Thing We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 31 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) August 17, 2021 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 If I don't change, my sobriety date will. AA-r ...Continue Reading