*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 9, 2018* *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, p. 47 Thought to PonderGod grant that AA may ever stay simple. AA-related 'Alconym'*P R O G R A M*  =  *P*eople *R*elying *O ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 8, 2018* *Our Problems*After all, our problems were of our own making. Bottles were only a symbol. Besides, we have stopped fighting anybody or anything. We have to! - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 103 Thought to PonderWe need to share our problems to find our solutions. AA-related 'Alconym'*A A*  =  *A*ltered *A*ttitudes Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message. Grateful to serve, peyt ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 7, 2018* *Our Big Book*Thus we grow. And so can you, though you be but one man with this book in your hand. We believe and hope it contains all you need to begin. We know what you are thinking. You are saying to yourself: "I'm jittery and alone. I couldn't do that." But you can. You forget that you have just now tapped a source of power greater than yourself. To duplicate, with such backing, what we have accomplished is only a matter of willingness, patien ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 6, 2018* *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, pp. 83 - 84 Thought to PonderWe cannot find peace by avoiding life. AA-related 'Alconym'*S T E P*  =  *S*omething *T*hat *E*nhan ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 5, 2018* *The Jumping-off Place*Inwardly he would give anything to take half a dozen drinks and get away with them. He will presently try the old game again, for he isn’t happy about his sobriety. He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 152 Thought to ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 4, 2018* *Resentments*Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 90 Thought to PonderResentment is like acid, eating away at the vessel it is stored in. AA-related 'Alconym'*F E A R*  =  *F*rustration, *E*go, *A*nge ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 3, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Principles*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, p. 125 Thought to PonderIs the life I'm liv ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 2, 2018* *Transformed*Until now, our lives have been largely devoted to running from pain and problems. We fled from them as from a plague. We never wanted to deal with the fact of suffering. Escape via the bottle was always our solution. Character-building through suffering might be all right for saints, but it certainly didn't appeal to us. Then, in A.A., we looked and listened. Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by humility into priceless assets.&nb ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *June 1, 2018* *The Actor*More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor. To the outer world he presents his stage character. This is the one he wants his fellows to see. He wants to enjoy a certain reputation, but knows in his heart he doesn't deserve it. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 73 Thought to PonderCharacter is what I am; reputation is what people think I am. AA-related 'Alconym'*F E A R*  =  *F*ighting *E*go *A*gain ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 31, 2018* *Disturbances*But in A.A. we slowly learned that something had to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride. We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us. We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 30, 2018* *Debris*Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 76 Thought to PonderDon't mess up an amend with an excuse. AA-related ' ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 29, 2018* *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, p. 40 Thought to PonderI can't do His will my way. AA-related 'Alconym'*S W A T*  =   ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 28, 2018* *Guidance*We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 104 Thought to PonderThe Three "P's" -- Pause, Pray, Proceed. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 27, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Alcoholic Mind*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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 42 Thought to PonderI want the gift of an untroubled mind. AA-related 'Alconym'*E S H*  =  *E*xperienc ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *May 26, 2018* *Humility *All of us saw, for example, that we lacked honesty and tolerance, that we were beset at times by attacks of self-pity or delusions of personal grandeur. But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we had yet acquired much actual humility. Though now recognized, our defects were still there. Something had to be done about them. - 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, p. 58 Thought to PonderHumility is not thinking less ...Continue Reading