AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 18, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Honestly Sought Even so has God restored us all to our right minds. To this man, the revelation was sudden. Some of us grow into it more slowly. But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him. When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us!  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 57  Thought to Ponder The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action.  AA-related 'Alconym' *F R O G*  =  ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 17, 2020 The Acid Test We are certain that our intelligence, backed by willpower, can rightly control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in. This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work? One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 37 Thought to Ponde ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 16, 2020 A Prospect When you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all you can about him. If he does not want to stop drinking, don’t waste time trying to persuade him. You may spoil a later opportunity. This advice is given for his family also. They should be patient, realizing they are dealing with a sick person. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 90 Thought to Ponder AA is not for people who need it, it's for ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 15, 2020 Withholding Nothing We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience. - Alcoholics Anonymous, In ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 14, 2020 Greatest Possession Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124 Thought to Ponder We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. AA-r ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 13, 2020 A Working Faith This lack of anchorage to any permanent values, this blindness to the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result. For just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible. This was true even when we believed that God existed. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72 Thought to P ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 12, 2020 Psychic Change After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxix Thought to Ponder Pain is the m ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 11, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Amazed If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 83 - 84  Thought to Ponder We cannot find peace by avoiding life.  AA-related ...Continue Reading

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