AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 25, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Our Steps Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us. Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes an ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 24, 2020 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 Hope leads to faith if you let it. AA-related 'Alconym' G R O W T H  =   God Reveals Other Ways To Heal. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength an ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 23, 2020 Utter Defeat No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. But upon entering AA we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. - Twe ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 22, 2020 Continue For Our Lifetime This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 21, 2020 Building Of Character 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 peop ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 20, 2020 Alcoholic Life Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxviii Thought to Ponder Don't believe everything you think. AA-related 'Alconym' D E N I A L   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 19, 2020 Honest Effort Our basic troubles are the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114 Thought to Ponder Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity. AA-related 'Alcony ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 18, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Honestly Sought Even so has God restored us all to our right minds. To this man, the revelation was sudden. Some of us grow into it more slowly. But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him. When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us!  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 57  Thought to Ponder The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action.  AA-related 'Alconym' *F R O G*  =  ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 17, 2020 The Acid Test 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 Ponde ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 16, 2020 A Prospect When you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all you can about him. If he does not want to stop drinking, don’t waste time trying to persuade him. You may spoil a later opportunity. This advice is given for his family also. They should be patient, realizing they are dealing with a sick person. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 90 Thought to Ponder AA is not for people who need it, it's for ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 15, 2020 Withholding Nothing We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience. - Alcoholics Anonymous, In ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 14, 2020 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 We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. AA-r ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 13, 2020 A Working Faith This lack of anchorage to any permanent values, this blindness to the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result. For just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible. This was true even when we believed that God existed. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72 Thought to P ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 12, 2020 Psychic Change After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxix Thought to Ponder Pain is the m ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 11, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Amazed 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 ...Continue Reading