AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 14, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Self-Propulsion Most people try to live by self-propulsion. Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way. If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 60 - 61  Thought to Ponder Love and tole ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 13, 2021 Acceptance We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness and all its consequences. Until he so humbles himself, his sobriety—if any—will be precarious. Of real happiness he will find none at all. Proved beyond doubt by an immense experience, this is one of the facts of A.A. life. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 21 Thought to Ponder The Three A's ... Awareness, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 12, 2021 The Basic Principles The basic principles of the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities. The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous. - Alcohol ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 11, 2021 A New Life We, in our turn, sought the same escape with all the desperation of drowning men. What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God. A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living" that really works. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 28 Thought to Ponder I stood in the sunlight at last. AA-related 'Alconym' A A  =   Answer Available. Thanks to a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 10, 2021 Consequences The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people. There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 24 Thought to Ponder The ul ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 9, 2021 Self-Destruction When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step 6) p. 64 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 8, 2021 Trust, Reliance, Serenity Perhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68 Thought to Ponder Serenit ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 7, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ A Good Beginning If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning. That being so you have swallowed and digested some big chunks of truth about yourself.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 71  Thought to Ponder If I have the courage to begin, I have the courage to succeed.  AA-related 'Alconym' *H O W*  =  Honest, Open-minded, Will ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 6, 2021 Willing to Believe Let us make haste to reassure you. We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 46 Thought to Ponder Willpower ... our will-ingness to use a Higher Power. AA-related 'Alcony ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 5, 2021 Dependence He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for. Nonsense. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job—wife or no wife—we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 98 Thought to Ponder In AA we don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the message. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 4, 2021 Our 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) February 3, 2021 Fully Concede We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30 Thought to Ponder When we try to control ou ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 2, 2021 Resentments But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66 Thought to Ponder Forgiveness unlocks my prison of resentme ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 1, 2021 Conscious Contact Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. But its object is always the same: to improve our conscious contact with God, with His grace, wisdom, and love. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 101 Th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) January 31, 2021 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Social Occasions Go or stay away, whichever seems best. But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good. Do not think of what you will get out of the occasion. Think of what you can bring to it. But if you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead!  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 102  Thought to Ponder Life didn't en ...Continue Reading