*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 7, 2020* *A Genuine Reliance* We could actually have earnest religious beliefs which remained barren because we were still trying to play God ourselves. As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72 Thought to Ponder Action without prayer is self-reliance. Pra ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 6, 2020* *We Ask* 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. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 87 Thought to Ponder Life is fragile, handle with pray ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 5, 2020* *Sanity Returned* And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone—even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. - Alcoh ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 4, 2020* *A Good Beginning* 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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 70 - 71 Thought to Ponder If I have the courage to begin, I have the courage to succee ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 3, 2020* *Self-Restraint* The quick inventory is aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes. In all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness to admit when the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 91 Thought to Ponder Nothing pays off ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 2, 2020* *Virtually Impossible* We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop. The experience of any alcoholic will abundantly confirm this. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There is a Solution) pp. 22 - 23 Th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) March 1, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Common Solution* The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 17  Thought to Ponder The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.&nbs ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 29, 2020* *Phenomenon of Craving* They took a drink a day or so prior to the date, and then the phenomenon of craving at once became paramount to all other interests so that the important appointment was not met. These men were not drinking to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) pp. xxix - xxx Thought to Ponder It's the first drink that gets you drunk. AA-related 'Alcon ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 28, 2020* *Spirituality* I finally began to separate the religious aspects of my life from A.A.’s spiritual program. Now the big difference to me is that religion is the ritual, and we all differ there, and spirituality is the way we feel about what we do. It’s about my personal contact with my personal Higher Power, as I understand Him. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Drunk, Like You) p. 406 Thought to Ponder A spiritual awakening is our greatest gift. AA-relat ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 27, 2020* *Persistent Effort* We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 43 Thought to Ponder In ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 26, 2020* *Hundreds of Experiences* Why does he behave like this? If hundreds of experiences have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink? Why can’t he stay on the water wagon? What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to other matters? - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 22 Thought to Ponder The first ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 25, 2020* *The Jumping-Off Place* Inwardly he would give anything to take half a dozen drinks and get away with them. He will presently try the old game again, for he isn’t happy about his sobriety. He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 24, 2020* *Keynotes* Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come into harmony with practically anybody. When in doubt we can always pause, saying, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." And we can often ask ourselves, "Am I doing to others as I would have them do to me—today?" - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 93 Thought to Ponder The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, Consideration ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 23, 2020 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Key to the Future* We turned back to the list, for it held the key to the future. We were prepared to look at it from an entirely different angle. We began to see that the world and its people really dominated us. In that state, the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, had power to actually kill. How could we escape? We saw that these resentments must be mastered, but how?  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66 ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 22, 2020* *A Real Answer* That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured—these are the conditions we h ...Continue Reading