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

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 19, 2019* *Good Living* For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all. Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125 Thought to Ponder AA is not someth ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 18, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Our Choice* When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be?  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 53  Thought to Ponder God seldom becomes a reality until God becomes a necessity.  AA-related 'Alconym' *F A I T H*&n ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 17, 2019* *To Save Himself* The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again. He suddenly realized that in order to save himself he must carry his message to another alcoholic.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreword to Second Edition) p. xvi Thought to Ponder In AA we carry the message ... not the mess. AA-related 'Alconym' *A L C O H O L I C S*  =  *A* *L*ife *C* ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 16, 2019* *Peace* If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. 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.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 83 - 84 Thought to Ponder We cannot find peace by avoiding life. AA-related 'Alconym' *S T E P*  =  ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 15, 2019* *Resistance* Accepting my Higher Power did not fully change my attitude of resistance. It just made yielding to instruction a more rational and acceptable mode of behavior. For each step, I still had to go through the process of recognizing that I had no control over my drinking. I had to understand that the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous had helped others and could help me. I had to realize that if I did want sobriety, I had better do the steps whethe ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 14, 2019* *Troubles* Our basic troubles are the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114 Thought to Ponder Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity. AA-related ' ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 13, 2019* *Sense of Purpose* 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 F ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 12, 2019* *Pain* Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) pp. 93 - 94 Thought to Ponder The gritty pain of alcoholism is the traction of recovery. AA-related 'Alconym' *H O P E*  =& ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) August 11, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Daily Reprieve* It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 85  Thought to Ponder The alcoholic is in no greater peril than when he takes sobriety ...Continue Reading