*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 19, 2019* *To Be Helpful* 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

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 18, 2019* *Prayer* Step Eleven suggests prayer and meditation. We shouldn’t be shy on this matter of prayer. Better men than we are using it constantly. It works, if we have the proper attitude and work at it.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 85 - 86 Thought to Ponder Life is fragile, handle with prayer. AA-related 'Alconym' *P R A Y E R*  =  *P*raying *R*egularly *A*llows *Y*our *E*veryday *R*ecovery. Thanks to all of you for shar ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 17, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Humility* For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy. Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.  - Twelve Steps and Tw ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 16, 2019* *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. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our activities.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 85 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 15, 2019* *Faith* There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all. I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.   - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 16 Thought to Ponder It is when you act on faith that you actually have it. AA-related 'Alconym' *F A I T H*  =  *F*acing *A*ll, *I*ntu ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 14, 2019* *Spiritual Terms* When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God. This applies, too, to other spiritual expressions which you find in this book. Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 47 Thought to Ponder God grant that AA may ever stay simple. AA-related 'Alconym' *P R O G R A M*   ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 13, 2019* *Made a Beginning* Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three. Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics Anonymous? Already a willingness has been achieved to cast out one's own will and one's own ideas about the alcohol problem in favor of those sugg ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 12, 2019* *Gift of Faith* We saw that we had to reconsider or die. We found many in A.A, who once thought as we did. They helped us to get down to our right size. By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we placed humility first. When we began to do that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works. This faith is for you, too.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (Step Two) p. 30 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 11, 2019* *Our Will* It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 40 Thought to Ponder I can't do His will my way. AA-related 'Alcon ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 10, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *A Trivial Reason* They had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all. I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More Abou ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 9, 2019* *Ultimately Destroy* 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 It's hard to fight an enemy who h ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 8, 2019* *The Allergy* These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion,) p. xxviii Thought to Ponder The Twelve Steps; a manuscript for rational living. AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 7, 2019* *Abstinence* All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. . . . . .It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion,) p. xxx Thought to Ponder If we want to quit drinking, we are going to have to quit drinking. AA-relate ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 6, 2019* *A Regular Habit* For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 88 Thought to Ponder I can’t fix something if I don’t know what’s wrong. AA-related 'Alconym' *A A*  =  *A*ccountable *A*ctions ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 5, 2019* *This Book* I earnestly advise every alcoholic to read this book through, and though perhaps he came to scoff, he may remain to pray.   - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion,) p. xxxii Thought to Ponder It works -- it really does. AA-related 'Alconym' *P U S H*  =  *P*ray *U*ntil *S*omething *H*appens. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message. Grateful to ...Continue Reading