*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 3, 2019* *Thankful* Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 76 Thought to Ponder Inventory-taking is not always done in red ink. AA-related 'Alconym' *A A*  =  *A*lways *A*ware. Thanks to all of you for shari ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 2, 2019* *Amends* Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76 Thought to Ponder It is the highest form of self-respe ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 1, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *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. &nb ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 31, 2019* *Alibis* Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body. If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic’s drinking bout creates. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 23 Thought to Ponder Insanity is doing ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 30, 2019* *Helping Others* Even the newest of newcomers finds undreamed rewards as he tries to help his brother alcoholic, the one who is even blinder than he. This is indeed the kind of giving that actually demands nothing. He does not expect his brother sufferer to pay him, or even to love him. And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not. - Twelve Ste ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 29, 2019* *Vital Spiritual Experience* Upon hearing this, our friend was somewhat relieved, for he reflected that, after all, he was a good church member. This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor’s telling him that while his religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 27 Thought to Ponder A spiritual awakening is our greatest gift. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 28, 2019* *Willing to Believe* My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, "Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. - Alcoholics Anonymous, ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 27, 2019* *Knowing Peace* We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 83 - 84 Thought to Ponder I never imagined t ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 26, 2019* *Sense of Purpose * Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it. 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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 130 Thought to Ponder A spiritual awakening is our greatest gift. AA-related 'Alconym' *S O B E R*  =  *S*piritually *O*n *B*eam; *E* ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 25, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Resentments* He said, in effect: “If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free."  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Freedom From Bondage) p. 552  Thought to Ponder Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the ot ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 24, 2019* *Freedom From Fear* When, with God’s help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 122 Thought to Ponder Situations I fear are rarely as bad as the fear itself. AA-related 'Alconym' *F E ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 23, 2019* *Self-Centered* Admitting he may be somewhat at fault, he is sure that other people are more to blame. He becomes angry, indignant, self-pitying. What is his basic trouble? Is he not really a self-seeker even when trying to be kind? Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if he only manages well?  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 61 Thought to Ponder When I choose the behavior, I ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 22, 2019* *Higher Power* 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 God seldom becomes a reality until God becomes a necessity. AA-related 'Alconym' *B I G  B O O K*  =  *B*elieving ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 21, 2019* *Lack of Power* 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 ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 20, 2019* *Without Defense* The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 24 Thought to ...Continue Reading