AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 27, 2020 Needed Power If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could will these things with all our might, but the needed power wasn’t there. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) pp. 44 - 45 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 26, 2020 A Tornado The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined. To his wife, he remarked, "Don't see anything the matter here, Ma. Ain't ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 25, 2020 Progressive Illness We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30 Thought to Ponder Alcoholic drinking's three stages: Impulsive, Compulsive, Repulsive. AA-related 'Alconym' A A  =  Answer Available. Thanks to all of ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 24, 2020 Spiritual Principles "Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before. My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange its best moments for the worst I have now. I would not go back to it even if I could." - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 23, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Step Eight Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake. To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways.  - Twelve Steps and Twe ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 22, 2020 Willing to Grow Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! I can’t go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60 Thought to Ponder Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober. AA-related 'Alconym' S O B E ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 21, 2020 Essentials of Recovery Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts. He can only be defeated by an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial. We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But thes ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 20, 2020 Another Excuse We also clutch at another wonderful excuse for avoiding an inventory. Our present anxieties and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior of other people—people who really need a moral inventory. We firmly believe that if only they'd treat us better, we'd be all right. Therefore we think our indignation is justified and reasonable—that our resentments are the "right kind." We aren't the guilty ones. They are! - Twelve Steps and ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 19, 2020 Humility Then, in A.A., we looked and listened. Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by humility into priceless assets. We heard story after story of how humility had brought strength out of weakness. In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more than we expected. It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Tradit ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 18, 2020 Good Living For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all. Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125 Thought to Ponder The Three A's .. Awareness, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 17, 2020 Prayer Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Tr ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 16, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Willing Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. 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.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58  Thought to Ponder What have I been given today? Am I willing to reach out and grasp it?  AA-related 'Alconym' *H O W*  =& ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 15, 2020 Acceptance And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Acceptance Was The Answer) p. 417 Th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 14, 2020 Attitudes We are careful never to show intolerance or hatred of drinking as an institution. Experience shows that such an attitude is not helpful to anyone. Every new alcoholic looks for this spirit among us and is immensely relieved when he finds we are not witchburners. A spirit of intolerance might repel alcoholics whose lives could have been saved, had it not been for such stupidity. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 103 Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 13, 2020 All Are Welcomed No one is too discredited or has sunk too low to be welcomed cordially—if he means business. Social distinctions, petty rivalries and jealousies—these are laughed out of countenance. Being wrecked in the same vessel, being restored and united under one God, with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of others, the things which matter so much to some people no longer signify much to them. How could they? - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision ...Continue Reading