AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 3, 2020 Acquiring Faith We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 28 Tho ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 2, 2020 Our Ideal Whatever our ideal turns out to be, we must be willing to grow toward it. We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 69 Thought to Ponder It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. AA-related 'Alconym' A A  =  Accountable Actions. Thanks to all of you for sharing so g ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 1, 2020 Prayer Step Eleven suggests prayer and meditation. We shouldn’t be shy on this matter of prayer. Better men than we are using it constantly. It works, if we have the proper attitude and work at it. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 85 - 86 Thought to Ponder Life is fragile, handle with prayer. AA-related 'Alconym' P A U S E  =  Pay Attention, Use Step Eleven. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strengt ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 31, 2020 Faith In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning. That being so you have swallowed and digested some big chunks of truth about yourself. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 70 - 71 Though ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 30, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Our Twelfth Suggestion 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. You can secure their confidence when others fail.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89  Thought to Ponder Get it - ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 29, 2020 Process of Learning During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God. And this was true whether we had been believers or unbelievers. We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency. The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate. - Twelve ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 28, 2020 We Pass It On The unselfishness of these men as we have come to know them, the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit, is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this alcoholic field. They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) pp. xvi - xvii Thought to Ponder Only in giving do we receive in full ...Continue Reading

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