*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 6. 2018* *Astonished* To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have. This is particularly true of women. Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years. Certain drinkers, who would be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished at their inability to stop. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 33 Thought to Ponder When we try to control ou ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 5. 2018* *Indecision* In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 86 Thought to Ponder With God's help, intuition and inspiration are possible. AA-related 'Alconym' *F A I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 4, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Change in Attitude* During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God. And this was true whether we had been believers or unbelievers. We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency. The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 3. 2018* *Listed and Analyzed* If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot. We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality. We have commenced to see their terrible destructiveness. We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 70 Thought to Ponder We are p ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 2, 2018* *Misdirected Instincts* Nearly every serious emotional problem can be seen as a case of misdirected instinct. When that happens, our great natural assets, the instincts, have turned into physical and mental liabilities. Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 42 Thought to Ponder Uncover to Recover. AA-related 'Alconym' *G I F T S*& ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 1, 2018* *My Master* No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in all directions. I had met my match. I had been overwhelmed. Alcohol was my master - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 8 Thought to Ponder The gritty pain of alcoholism is the traction of recovery. AA-related 'Alconym' *H O P E*  =  *H*old *O*n, *P*ain *E*nds. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of you ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 31, 2018* *Rocketed* 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 to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet. We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed. ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 30, 2018* *Ageless Truth* When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul. We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere of His grace. To an amazing extent the facts of A.A. Life confirm this agele ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 29, 2018* *Unshakable Foundation* There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. But when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 98 Thought to Ponder Today I pray over the things that I used to drink over. AA-related 'Alconym' *A A*  =  *A*ttitude *A*djustment. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 28, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Three Pertinent Ideas* Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: *(a)* That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. *(b)* That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. *(c)* That God could and would if He were sought.   - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 60 Thought to Ponder I can't, God can, I'll a ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 27, 2018* *Self-Destruction* When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 64 T ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 26, 2018* *Resentments* But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 66 Thought to Ponder Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for t ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 25, 2018* *A Good Beginning* In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 70 - 71 Thought to Ponder Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grows. AA-relat ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 24, 2018* *The Power* The unselfishness of these men as we have come to know them, the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit, is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this alcoholic field. They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xxvii Thought to Ponder The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us. ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 23, 2018* *Soul-Sickness* This perverse soul-sickness is not pleasant to look upon. Instincts on rampage balk at investigation. The minute we make a serious attempt to probe them, we are liable to suffer severe reactions. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 44 - 45 Thought to Ponder We need to uncover in order to recover. AA-related 'Alconym' *S O L U T I O N S*  =  *S*aving *O*ur *L*ives *U*sing *T*he *I*nventory *O*f *N*eeded *S*teps. Thanks ...Continue Reading