AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) January 20, 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 I saw, I felt, I believed.  AA-related 'Alconym' *W I L L I N G*  =  *W*he ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 19, 2019* *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,&q ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 18, 2019* *Defense* Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, "More About Alcoholism," p. 43 Thought to Ponder I can't, He can, I'll let Him. AA-related 'Alconym' *F R O G*  =  *F*ully *R*ely *O*n *G*od. Thanks to all of yo ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 17, 2019* *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 Within our wonderful new world, we have found ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 16, 2019* *Plain Insanity* He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic. Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it with milk! Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity. How can such a lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight, be called anything else?  - Alcoholics Anonymous, "More About Alcoholism," ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 15, 2019* *Prayer* Pray. Whether you believe it or not, pray to a higher power. If we were able to stay sober on our own power, we wouldn't be here tonight. It takes a power greater than ourselves, and prayer is how we contact that higher power. You can use a religious one or one of your own choosing. If the God word bothers you, pray to an anonymous higher power or even "to whom it may concern." In the morning, ask this Higher Power to keep you sobe ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 14, 2019* *The Bottom* Since Step One requires an admission that our lives have become unmanageable, how could people such as these take this Step? It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them. By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal p ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) January 13, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Gratitude* "Gratitude should go forward, rather than backward. In other words, if you carry the message to still others, you will be making the best possible repayment for the help given to you."  - As Bill Sees It, p. 29  Thought to Ponder Grateful is a feeling. Gratitude is an action.  AA-related 'Alconym' *H U G S*  =  *H*ope, *U*nity, *G*ratitude, *S*erenity.  A Member Shares: I a ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 12, 2019* *Merciless Obsession* Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be. We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, "Step One," p. 24 Thought to Ponder The gritty pain of alcoholism is the tracti ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 11, 2019* *Absolutely Unable* But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, "More About Alcoholism," p. 39 Thought to Ponder Faith makes the impossible possible. AA-related 'Al ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 10, 2019* *Spiritual Tools* There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore, we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 9, 2019* *The Truth* We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.   - Alcoholics Anonymous, "More About Alcoholism," p. 33 Thought to Ponder If we want to q ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 8, 2019* *Two Alternatives* If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.  - Al ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 7, 2019* *Conditions* We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.  - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, "Step Four," p. 47 Thought to Ponder Learn to change, change to learn. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) January 6, 2019 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Talk About God* 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. That means we have written a book which we believe to be spiritual as well as ...Continue Reading