*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 29, 2020* *Tradition One* Our A.A. experience has taught us that: Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendix I) p. 563 Thought to Ponder United we stand, divided we fall. AA-related 'Alconym' *U S*  =  *U*nited *S*pirits. Thanks to all of you f ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 28, 2020* *Foolish Idea* He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic. Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it with milk! Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity. How can such a lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight, be called anything else? - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp. 36 - 37 Thought ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 27, 2020* *Humility* To those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be. Therefore, our first practical move toward humility must consist of recognizing our deficiencies. No defect can be corrected unless we clearly see what it is. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 58 Thought to Ponder Learning is the very essence of humility; the t ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) April 26, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Rarely* Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not, completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58  Thought to Ponder Meeting makers make meetings. Step takers recover.  AA-related 'Alcon ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 25, 2020* *Save The Day* I was not too well at the time, and was plagued by waves of self-pity and resentment.This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day. Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair. On talking to a man there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet. It is a design for living that works in rough going. - Alcoholics Anonymous, ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 24, 2020* *Accept Direction* Hence it was most evident that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough. We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves—the help of God and another human being. Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 23, 2020* *Fellowship* We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain’s table. Unlike the feelings of the ship’s passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we g ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 22, 2020* *Serenity Prayer* In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done." - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 40 - 41 Thought to Ponder Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it is peace within the sto ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 21, 2020* *Solve Your Problem* Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that‘s exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 45 Thought to Ponder Willpower ... our will-ingness to ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 20, 2020* *Burned Up* In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry. We asked ourselves why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened. So we were sore. We were "burned up." - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 64 - 65 Thought to Ponder Resentment is like ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) April 19, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Prayer* We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 87  Thought to Ponder Trying to pray is praying.  AA-related 'Alconym' *P R A Y E R*  =  *P*raying *R*egularly *A*llows *Y*our *E*veryday *R*ecovery.  A Member ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 18, 2020* *The 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. ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 17, 2020* *Transformed* In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself. He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought himself quite incapable. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 107 Thought to Ponder We're not living just to be sober; we are living to l ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 16, 2020* *Character and Comfort* But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness. Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would like to strive for whether our instinctual needs were met or not. We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living. - Twelve Steps ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *April 16, 2020* *Character and Comfort* But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness. Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would like to strive for whether our instinctual needs were met or not. We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living. - Twelve Steps ...Continue Reading