*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

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 22, 2018* *Step Twelve* "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him. It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 21, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Great Fact* The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.   - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 164 Thought to Ponder Life didn't end when I got sober -- it started. AA-related 'Alconym' *F E A R*  =  *F*ew ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 20, 2018* *Our Big Book* In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's view, the spiritual idea of the Society was codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear. The remainder of the book was devoted to thirty stories or case histories in which the alcoholics described their drinking experiences and recoveries. This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 19, 2018* *Meditation* Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives. There's nothing the matter with constructive imagination; all sound achievement rests upon it. After all, no man can build a house until he first envisions a plan for it. Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 100 ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 18, 2018* *It Matters* We could cheerfully perform humble labor without worrying about tomorrow. If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned that these troubles could be turned into great values. It did not matter too much what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 121 - 122 Thought to Ponder Spirituality is not base ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 17, 2018* *Step Five* “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” ALL OF A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary to longtime sobriety and peace of mind than this one. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 55 Thought to Ponder Guilt is in the ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 16, 2018* *Children of Chaos* Over the years, every conceivable deviation from our Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions has been tried. That was sure to be, since we are so largely a band of ego-driven individuals. Children of chaos, we have defiantly played with every brand of fire, only to emerge unharmed and, we think, wiser. These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error, which under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand today. ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 15, 2018* *Forgiveness* We've repeatedly strained the patience of our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with. In many instances we are really dealing with fellow sufferers, people whose woes we have increased. If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we start out by forgiving them, one and all? - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 78 Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 14, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ My apologies for the late delivery of your Daily Thought today.  It seems we had a glitch on our server and the scheduler did not send when it should have. *Affirmative Action* Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God—or, if you like, a Higher Power—into our lives. Faith, to be sure, is neces ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 13, 2018* *The Miracle* And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone—even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. - Alcoh ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 12, 2018* *Step Eleven* Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 59 Thought to Ponder Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer. AA-related 'Alconym' *A S A P*  =  *A*lways *S*ay *A* *P*rayer. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *October 11, 2018* *Vital Faith* But he will be curious to learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well. He may be an example of the truth that faith alone is insufficient. To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 93 Thought to Ponder If faith without works is dead; then willingness without action is fantasy. AA-related 'Alconym' *H O W*  =  *H* ...Continue Reading