AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 25, 2020 Their Symptoms This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 66 - 67 Thought to Ponder We are prisoners of our own resentments. Forgivene ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 24, 2020 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. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 23, 2020 Thoroughness and Honesty We went back through our lives. Nothing counted but thoroughness and honesty. When we were finished we considered it carefully. The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong. To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 65 - 66 Thought to Ponder It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. AA-related 'Alconym' H O W & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 22, 2020 Deadly Earnestness There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all. I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 16 Thought to Ponder It is when you act on faith that ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 21, 2020 Spiritual Malady Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 64 Thought to Ponder Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other pers ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 20, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Motives This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) pp. 94 - 95  Th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 19, 2020 Unable The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power 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 Thought to Ponder The person ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 18, 2020 Faith and Action But he will be curious to learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well. He may be an example of the truth that faith alone is insufficient. To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 93 Thought to Ponder Faith is mighty. Action with faith is mightier. AA-related 'Alconym' H O W  =  Honest, O ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 17, 2020 God’s Help Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to. Neither could we reduce our self-centeredness much by wishing or trying on our own power. We had to have God’s help. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 62 Thought to Ponder Faith makes the impossible possible. AA-related 'Alconym' B I G   B O O K  =  Believing In God Beats Our Old Knowle ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 16, 2020 We Searched If the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values. We did exactly the same thing with our lives. We took stock honestly. First, we searched out the flaws in our make-up which caused our failure. Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 64 Thought to Ponder I must walk into darkness t ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 15, 2020 One Short Question We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?" As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (W ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 14, 2020 A Logical Idea People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about. Actually, we used to have no reasonable conception whatever. We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Ag ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 13, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Attitude and Outlook No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84  Thought to Ponder If I self-forget, I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 12, 2020 Bedevilments 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 Anonymous ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 11, 2020 Lose Our Fear More and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life. As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter. We were reborn. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 63 Thought to Ponder The Power behind us is much greater than any fear in front of us. AA-r ...Continue Reading