AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 10, 2020 Grudges We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 47 Thought to Ponder Resentment is like acid, eating away at the vessel it is stor ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 9, 2020 We Ask God In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 86 Thought to Ponder Today I pray over the things that I used to drink over. AA-related 'Alconym' ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 8, 2020 The Miracle And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone—even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. - Alcoholics An ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 7, 2020 Harmony Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come into harmony with practically anybody. When in doubt we can always pause, saying, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." And we can often ask ourselves, "Am I doing to others as I would have them do to me—today?" - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 93 Thought to Ponder The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, Consideration. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 6, 2020 Spiritual Progress We told him what we knew of alcoholism and the answer we had found. He made a beginning. His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the business he had lost through drinking. All went well for a time, but he failed to enlarge his spiritual life. To his consternation, he found himself drunk half a dozen times in rapid succession. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 35 Thought to Ponder Spiritual p ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 5, 2020 Spiritual Experiences Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time. Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of the difference long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change could hardly have been brought about by himself alone. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 4, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Seventh Step When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen."  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76  Thought to Ponder If I want God to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 3, 2020 Fellowship Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find the fellowship, and so will you. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 152 Thought to Ponder Alcoholics Anonymous is the only place in the wo ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 2, 2020 Language of the Heart Taking advantage of technological advances, for example, A.A. members with computers can participate in meetings online, sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world. In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward to Fourth Edition) p. Thought to Ponder Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 1, 2020 Inventory When AA suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look inside himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of AA's who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 30, 2020 Faith Without Works Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 29, 2020 A Wide Variation 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) September 28, 2020 A Greater Challenge Like most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they come. But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and more continuous problems of life. Our answer is in still more spiritual development. Only by this means can we improve our chances for really happy and useful living. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114 Thought to Ponder Life is a steady drizzle of small th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 27, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Growing First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. 77  Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 26, 2020 Revealed to Us But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 39 Thought to Ponder Pride in my intelligence blinded me to how much I did not know. AA-related ...Continue Reading