*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 17, 2019* *Are We Ready?* If we can answer to our satisfaction, we then look at Step Six. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76 Thought to Ponder Habits are like cork or lead -- th ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 16, 2019* *We Are Delighted (Step Five)* 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. - Alcoholi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 15, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Our Dilemma* 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 Th ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 14, 2019* *Deep Resentment* It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66 Thought to Ponder Resen ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 13, 2019* *We Must* So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! God makes that possible. And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 62 Thought to Ponde ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 12, 2019* *Three Pertinent Ideas* Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. (c) That God could and would if He were sought. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 85 Thought to Ponder I can't, God can, I'll ask Him to. AA-rela ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 11, 2019* *True Tolerance* We begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 92 Thought to Ponder Let us always love the best in others, and never fear their worst. AA-related 'Alconym' *P U T*  =  *P*ractice *U*sing *T*olerance. Thanks t ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 10, 2019* *From Bridge to Shore* The barriers he had built through the years were swept away. He stood in the Presence of Infinite Power and Love. He had stepped from bridge to shore. For the first time, he lived in conscious companionship with his Creator. Thus was our friend’s cornerstone fixed in place. No later vicissitude has shaken it. His alcoholic problem was taken away. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 56 Thought to Ponder No God, no peace ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 9, 2019* *Value of Experience* Henry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is the thing of supreme value in life. That is true only if one is willing to turn the past to good account. We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124 Thought to Ponder If you want to change who you are, change what you do. AA-related 'Alconym' *H O W*  =  * ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 8, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Calamity With Serenity* 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) ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 7, 2019* *A Double-Edged Sword* The tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us: first we were smitten by an insane urge that condemned us to go on drinking, and then by an allergy of the body that insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in the process. Few indeed were those who, so assailed, had ever won through in singlehanded combat. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 22 Thought to Ponder The solution is simple. The solutio ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 6, 2019* *Spiritual Growth First* We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives. If we place instincts first, we have got the cart before the horse; we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment. But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first—then and only then do we have a real chance. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114 Thought to Ponder Growing old is inevitable, growing ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 5, 2019* *Watches Over Us* The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs. We know that God lovingly watches over us. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 105 Thought to Ponder Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with s ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 4, 2019* *A Long Way* Sometimes we hear an alcoholic say that the only thing he needs to do is to keep sober. Certainly he must keep sober, for there will be no home if he doesn’t. But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has so shockingly treated. - Alcoholics Anonymous (Into Action) p. 82 Thought to Ponder It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. AA-related 'Alconym' * ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 3, 2019* *Our Point of View* Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does? We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn’t apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view. - Alcoholics Anonymous (We Agnostics) p. 52 Thought to Ponder Times change, alcoholism doesn't. AA-related 'A ...Continue Reading