AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 2, 2020 Language of the Heart Taking advantage of technological advances, for example, A.A. members with computers can participate in meetings online, sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world. In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward to Fourth Edition) p. Thought to Ponder Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 1, 2020 Inventory When AA suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look inside himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of AA's who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 30, 2020 Faith Without Works Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 29, 2020 A Wide Variation In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. Experience has taught us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried. They are questions for each individual to settle for himself. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 28, 2020 A Greater Challenge Like most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they come. But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and more continuous problems of life. Our answer is in still more spiritual development. Only by this means can we improve our chances for really happy and useful living. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114 Thought to Ponder Life is a steady drizzle of small th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 27, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Growing First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. 77  Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 26, 2020 Revealed to Us But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 39 Thought to Ponder Pride in my intelligence blinded me to how much I did not know. AA-related ...Continue Reading

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