AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 6, 2021 Harder Amends Nevertheless, with a person we dislike, we take the bit in our teeth. It is harder to go to an enemy than to a friend, but we find it much more beneficial to us. We go to him in a helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret. Under no condition do we criticize such a person or argue. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 77 Thought to Ponder It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 5, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Search Diligently If our testimony helps sweep away prejudice, enables you to think honestly, encourages you to search diligently within yourself, then, if you wish, you can join us on the Broad Highway. With this attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 55  Thought to Ponder What are you coming to believe? Belief is a continuing action.& ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 4, 2021 Simple Reliance When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 52 Thought to Ponder Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity. AA-related 'Alconym' F A I T H  =   Found Always In Trusting Him. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your ex ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 3, 2021 A Basic Solution We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people—was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was. - Alcoholics Anonym ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 2, 2021 The Discovery "Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before. My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange its best moments for the worst I have now. I would not go back to it even if I could." - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 1, 2021 Step Nine Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76 Thought to Ponder It is the highest form of self-respect ...Continue Reading

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