AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 4, 2020 To Give and Receive Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. Father feels he has struck something better than gold. For a time he may try to hug the new treasure to himself. He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) pp. 128 - 129 Thought to Po ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 3, 2020 Thy Will Be Done We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Actio ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 2, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ A Better Way Perhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68  T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 1, 2020 Often Indispensable God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. Their services are often indispensabl ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 31, 2020 Greater Than Himself On one proposition, however, these men and women are strikingly agreed. Every one of them has gained access to, and believes in, a Power greater than himself. This Power has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 50 Thought to Ponder Willpower ... our will-ingness to use a Higher Power. AA-related 'Alconym' B I G  B O O K  = Believing In God Beats Our ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 30, 2020 Steps Eight & Nine Now we need more action, without which we find that "Faith without works is dead." Let's look at Steps Eight and Nine. We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. We subjected ourselves to a drastic self-appraisal. Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76 Thought to Ponder It ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 29, 2020 Fear and Prayer I got down on my knees for the first time in thirty years. The prayer I said was simple. It went something like this: "God, for eighteen years I have been unable to handle this problem. Please let me turn it over to you." Immediately a great feeling of peace descended upon me, intermingled with a feeling of being suffused with a quiet strength. I lay down on the bed and slept like a child. An hour later I awoke to a new world. Noth ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 28, 2020 Clearly See 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 Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinki ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 27, 2020 Our Fears This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives. We have come to believe He would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth. That is where our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 130 Thought to Ponder Faith is our greatest ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 26, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ The Actor Most people try to live by self-propulsion. Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way. If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great. Everybody, including himself, would be pleased. Life would be wonderful.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (H ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 25, 2020 Our Fears Sometimes we think fear ought to be classed with stealing. It seems to cause more trouble. We reviewed our fears thoroughly. We put them on paper, even though we had no resentment in connection with them. We asked ourselves why we had them. Wasn’t it because self-reliance failed us? Self-reliance was good as far as it went, but it didn’t go far enough. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 67 - 68 Thought to Ponder Breathe in faith, breathe ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 24, 2020 Thoroughness If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot.  We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality. We have commenced to see their terrible destructiveness.  We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people. We have listed the people we have hu ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 23, 2020 Our Families We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible. So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 83 Thought to Ponder The Three "C ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) July 22, 2020 No Such Thing We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp. 30 - 31 Thought to Ponder When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control. AA-related 'Alconym' I S M  =  I Sabota ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *July 21, 2020* *Enjoying Life* We have been speaking to you of serious, sometimes tragic things. We have been dealing with alcohol in its worst aspect. But we aren't a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying life. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 132 Thought to Ponder Laughter is the sound of recovery. AA-related 'Alconym' *H J F*  =  *H*appy, *J*oyous, *F*ree ...Continue Reading