AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 7, 2021 Faith Applied Let him see that you are not there to instruct him in religion. Admit that he probably knows more about it than you do, but call to his attention the fact that however deep his faith and knowledge, he could not have applied it or he would not drink. Perhaps your story will help him see where he has failed to practice the very precepts he knows so well. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 93 Thought to Ponder Faith without works ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 6, 2021 Greatest Possession Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124 Thought to Ponder Through adversity, we find strength. AA-related 'Alconym' H O L D & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 5, 2021 For Each Individual In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. Experience has taught us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried. They are questions for each individual to settle for himself. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 4, 2021 A Fair Hearing We looked at the human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation. We talked of intolerance, while we were intolerant ourselves. We missed the reality and the beauty of the forest because we were diverted by the ugliness of some of its trees. We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 50 Thought to Ponder If you want to change wh ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 3, 2021 Experience Henry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is the thing of supreme value in life. That is true only if one is willing to turn the past to good account. We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124 Thought to Ponder If you want to change who you are, change what you do. AA-related 'Alconym' A C T I O N  =   Any Change To ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 2, 2021 Step Eight "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all." We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have "harmed" other people. What kinds of "harm" do people do one another, anyway? To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 1, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Anger If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66  Thought to Ponder "God save me from being angry. Thy will be done."  AA-related 'Alconym' C A L M  =  Cause Anger Left Me. A Member Shares: Hi All. I'm Donna ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 31, 2021 Insanity He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic. Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it with milk! Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity. How can such a lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight, be called anything else? - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp. 36 - 37 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 30, 2021 A New Life Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life -- the one that did not work -- for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever. - As Bill Sees It, No. 8 Thought to Ponder Sobriety is not a d ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 29, 2021 If We Are Painstaking If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 83 - 84 Thought to Ponder We cannot find peace by avoiding life. AA-related 'Alconym' S T E P  =   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 28, 2021 Lose All Control But what about the real alcoholic? He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 21 Thought to Ponder When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control. AA-related 'Alconym' C H A O S  =   Can't Han ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 27, 2021 Without Defense The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called willpower becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 24 Thoug ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 26, 2021 No Fight I woke up. This had to be stopped. I saw I could not take so much as one drink. I was through forever. Before then, I had written lots of sweet promises, but my wife happily observed that this time I meant business. And so I did. Shortly afterward I came home drunk. There had been no fight. Where had been my high resolve? I simply didn’t know. It hadn’t even come to mind. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 5 Thought to Ponder The ultimate d ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 25, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Revolutionary Change They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking. In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 24, 2021 Fearless and Thorough If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it—then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58 Thought to Ponder Sobriety without action is fantasy. AA-related ...Continue Reading