AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 12, 2020 Amends Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76 Thought to Ponder Don't mess up an amend with an excuse. AA-r ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 11, 2020 Faith We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 55 Thought to Ponder I saw, I felt, I believed. AA-related 'Alconym' W I L L I N G  =  When I Live Life, I Need God. Thanks to all of yo ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 10, 2020 We Reviewed We reviewed our own conduct over the years past. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, or inconsiderate? Whom had we hurt? Did we unjustifiably arouse jealousy, suspicion or bitterness? Where were we at fault, what should we have done instead? We got this all down on paper and looked at it. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 96 Thought to Ponder Clear vision for tomorrow comes only after a real look at yesterday. AA-related 'Alconym' ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 9, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Practice These Principles One of the most fundamental things I have learned is to pass on our message to other alcoholics. That means I must think more about others than about myself. The most important thing is to practice these principles in all my affairs. In my opinion, that is what Alcoholics Anonymous is all about.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Gratitude in Action) p. 199  Thought to Ponder Grateful is a feeling. Gra ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 8, 2020 But The First Step Cessation of drinking is but the first step away from a highly strained, abnormal condition. A doctor said to us, "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is, to some extent, ill." Let families realize, as they start their journey, that all will not be fair weather. Each in his turn may be footsore and may straggle. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 7, 2020 Experience Henry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is the thing of supreme value in life. That is true only if one is willing to turn the past to good account. We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124 Thought to Ponder If you want to change who you are, change what you do. AA-related 'Alconym' H O W  =  Honest, Open-minded, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 6, 2020 Willing to Believe If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception of God. He can choose any conception he likes, provided it makes sense to him. The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 93 Thought to Ponder I came; I came to; I came to believe. AA-related 'Alconym' G O D ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 5, 2020 Faith We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives. Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific means shall we be able to let Him in? Step Three represents our first attempt to do this. In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him." - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditio ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 4, 2020 To Give and Receive Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. Father feels he has struck something better than gold. For a time he may try to hug the new treasure to himself. He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) pp. 128 - 129 Thought to Po ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 3, 2020 Thy Will Be Done We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Actio ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 2, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ A Better Way 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  T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 1, 2020 Often Indispensable God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. Their services are often indispensabl ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 31, 2020 Greater Than Himself On one proposition, however, these men and women are strikingly agreed. Every one of them has gained access to, and believes in, a Power greater than himself. This Power has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 50 Thought to Ponder Willpower ... our will-ingness to use a Higher Power. AA-related 'Alconym' B I G  B O O K  = Believing In God Beats Our ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 30, 2020 Steps Eight & Nine Now we need more action, without which we find that "Faith without works is dead." Let's look at Steps Eight and Nine. We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. We subjected ourselves to a drastic self-appraisal. Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76 Thought to Ponder It ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 29, 2020 Fear and Prayer I got down on my knees for the first time in thirty years. The prayer I said was simple. It went something like this: "God, for eighteen years I have been unable to handle this problem. Please let me turn it over to you." Immediately a great feeling of peace descended upon me, intermingled with a feeling of being suffused with a quiet strength. I lay down on the bed and slept like a child. An hour later I awoke to a new world. Noth ...Continue Reading