AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 2, 2020 Meeting Conditions An alcoholic who cannot meet them, still has an alcoholic mind; there is something the matter with his spiritual status. His only chance for sobriety would be some place like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything! Ask any woman who has sent her husband to distant places on the theory he would escape the alcohol problem. In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 1, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Carry This Message Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89  Thought to Ponder In AA, we discover that it is impossible to give without rece ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 31, 2020 This Question Our friend’s gorge rose as he bitterly cried out: "If there is a God, He certainly hasn’t done anything for me!’’ But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?" While pondering the answer he felt as though he lived in hell. Then, like a thunderbolt, a great thought came. It crowded out all else: "Who are you to say there is no God?" ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 30, 2020 Becoming Impossible If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. - Alcoholics ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 29, 2020 Anger If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66 Thought to Ponder Anger is but a mask for fear. AA-related 'Alconym' C A L M  =   Cause Anger Left Me. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA me ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 28, 2020 Fearlessly Face When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be? - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 53 Thought to Ponder I came; I came to; I came to believe. AA-related 'Alconym' G I F T  =   God Is Forever There. Thanks to all of you for shari ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 27, 2020 Three Pertinent Ideas Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. (c) That God could and would if He were sought. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60 Thought to Ponder I can't, God can, I'll ask Him to. AA-related 'Al ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 26, 2020 Continue to Watch Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help. Love and tolerance of others is our code. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84 Thought to Ponder I can’t fix something if I don’t know what’s wrong. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 25, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Our Steps Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us. Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes an ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 24, 2020 Simple Reliance When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 52 Thought to Ponder Hope leads to faith if you let it. AA-related 'Alconym' G R O W T H  =   God Reveals Other Ways To Heal. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength an ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 23, 2020 Utter Defeat No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete. But upon entering AA we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. - Twe ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 22, 2020 Continue For Our Lifetime This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 21, 2020 Building Of Character If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. That is something we are supposed to be willing to work toward ourselves. He asks only that we try as best we know how to make progress in the building of character. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) p. 65 Thought to Ponder Character is what I am; reputation is what peop ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 20, 2020 Alcoholic Life Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxviii Thought to Ponder Don't believe everything you think. AA-related 'Alconym' D E N I A L   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 19, 2020 Honest Effort Our basic troubles are the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114 Thought to Ponder Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity. AA-related 'Alcony ...Continue Reading