*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 5, 2019* *Inspiration* Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action,) p. 87 Thought to Ponder The Three "P's" ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 4, 2019* *Vital to Recovery* This seemed to prove that one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could. It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was vital to permanent recovery.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward To Second Edition,) pp. xvi - xvii Thought to Ponder To keep it, you have to give it away. AA-related 'Alconym' *W O R K*  =  What Our Recovery Knows. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 3, 2019* *Resentments* Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. When a person offended we said to ourselves,"This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done."  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67 Thought to Po ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 2, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Selfishness* That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84  Thought to Ponder If I self-forget, I find.  AA-related 'Alconym' *C H A N G E D*  =  Choosing Humility Allows New Growth Each Day.&n ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 1, 2019* *Unselfishness and Love* Since the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there. He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and love under his own roof. We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward,) p. 127 Thought to Ponder The first step in ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 31, 2019* *Faith* Leaving aside the drink question, they tell why living was so unsatisfactory. They show how the change came over them. When many hundreds of people are able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 51 Thought to Ponder Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grows. ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 30, 2019* *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 Th ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 29, 2019* *The Alcoholic Illness* But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life. It engulfs all whose lives touch the sufferer's. It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents—anyone can increase the list.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 18 Thought to Ponder Righ ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 28, 2019* *Prayer and Meditation* We liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done miracles. But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong. Of course we finally did experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different, in fact; we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation and prayer.  - Twelve Steps a ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 27, 2019* *Temptation* In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure. If the alcoholic tries to shield himself he may succeed for a time, but he usually winds up with a bigger explosion than ever. We have tried these methods. These attempts to do the impossible have always failed.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 101 Thought to Ponder Faith makes the impossible pos ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 26, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Checking Our Motives* But in other instances only the closest scrutiny will reveal what our true motives were. There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which was really wrong. The temptation here is to imagine that we had good motives and reasons when we really didn't.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 94  Thought to Ponder Don't believe everyt ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 25, 2019* *Faith Without Works* Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 24, 2019* *Happy, Joyous and Free* We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it.   - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 133 Thought to Ponder Happiness and peace of mind are always here, open and free to anyone. AA-related 'Alconym' *F R E E*  =  ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 23, 2019* *Morning Meditation* If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing. There are many helpful books also. Suggestions about these may be obtained from one’s priest, minister, or rabbi. Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 87 Thought to Ponder Prayer asks the question. Medita ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 22, 2019* *Alcoholics Anonymous* We are not an organization in the conventional sense of the word. There are no fees or dues whatsoever. The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. We are not allied with any particular faith, sect or denomination, nor do we oppose anyone. We simply wish to be helpful to those who are afflicted.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward to the First Edition,) pp. xiii - xiv Thought to Ponder The Twelve ...Continue Reading