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

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 30, 2021 Defensive Emotions The moment we ponder a twisted or broken relationship with another person, our emotions go on the defensive. To escape looking at the wrongs we have done another, we resentfully focus on the wrong he has done us. This is especially true if he has, in fact, behaved badly at all. Triumphantly we seize upon his misbehavior as the perfect excuse for minimizing or forgetting our own. Right here we need to fetch ourselves up sharply. - Twelv ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 29, 2021 Our Creator The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 25 Thought to Ponder Don't give up before the miracle happens. AA-related 'Alconym' G I F T  =   God Is Forever There. Thanks to all of you f ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 28, 2021 Kindness, Justice, Courtesy We can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love. We can show kindness where we had shown none. With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 93 Thought to Ponder Love and tolerance of others is our code. AA-related 'Alconym' T U F  =   Tolerance, Understanding, Forgi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 27, 2021 The Key Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more. Though self-will may slam it shut again, as it frequently does, it will always respond the moment we again pick up the key of willingness. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 35 Thought to Ponder If I have the courage to begin, I have the courage to succeed. AA-related 'Alconym' S W A T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 26, 2021 Wonderful Revelation It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 40 Thought to Ponder What have I been given today? Am I willing to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 25, 2021 Isolation What are we likely to receive from Step Five? For one thing, we shall get rid of that terrible sense of isolation we've always had. Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 57 Thought to Ponder An alcoholic is someone who wants to be held ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 24, 2021 An Answer If you still think you are strong enough to beat the game alone, that is your affair. But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you. It never fails, if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when you were getting another drink. Your Heavenly Father will never let you down! - Alcoholics Anonym ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 23, 2021 Willingness But now it appears that there are certain things which only the individual can do. All by himself, and in the light of his own circumstances, he needs to develop the quality of willingness. When he acquires willingness, he is the only one who can make the decision to exert himself. Trying to do this is an act of his own will. All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust, to Go ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 22, 2021 A.A.'s Growth Literature has played a major role in A.A.’s growth, and a striking phenomenon of the past quarter-century has been the explosion of translations of our basic literature into many languages and dialects. In country after country where the A.A. seed was planted, it has taken root, slowly at first, then growing by leaps and bounds when literature has become available. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreword to Fourth Edition) p. xxiii Thought to P ...Continue Reading