*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 10, 2018* *Helping Others*Your candidate may give reasons why he need not follow all of the program. He may rebel at the thought of a drastic housecleaning which requires discussion with other people. Do not contradict such views. Tell him you once felt as he does, but you doubt whether you would have made much progress had you not taken action. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 94 Thought to PonderTrust God. Clean house. Help others. AA-related 'Alconym'*P R O G ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 9, 2018* *Loneliness*The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 151 Thought to PonderAlcoholic drinking's three stages: impulsive, compulsive, repulsive. AA-related 'Alconym'*F A I L U R E*  =  *F*earful, *A*rrogant, *I ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 8, 2018* *A Solution*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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25 Thought to PonderThe solution is simple. The solution is spiritual. AA-related 'Alconym'*H O ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 7, 2018* *Recovery Begins*In spite of the great increase in the size and the span of this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal. Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope. - Alcoholics Anonymous, Foreword to Third Edition, p. xxii Thought to PonderEvery recovery from alcoholism began with one sober hour. AA-related 'Alconym'*F E A R*  = &nbs ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 6, 2018* *Stability*When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would. - Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 116 Thought to PonderNo God, no peace — know God, know peace. AA-related 'Alconym'*F A I T H*  =  *F*or *A*ll *I* *T*rust *H*im. Thanks to all ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 5, 2018* *Malady*It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every spree, he would say to himself, "Maybe those A.A.'s were right . . ." - Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 23 Thought to PonderThe gritty pain of alcoholism is the traction of recovery. AA-related 'Alconym'*F A I L*  =  *F*rom *A*dversity *I* *L* ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 4, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Sponsor*The unique ability of each A.A. to identify himself with, and bring recovery to, the newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills. The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. - Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, pp. 150 - 151 Thought to PonderA recovering alcoholic without a sponsor is much like a ship without a rudder. AA-r ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 3, 2018* *Change*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 & Twelve Traditions, p. 47 Thought to PonderIf you want to change who you are, change what you do. ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 2, 2018* *Promises*We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 84 Thought to PonderReliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity. AA-rela ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 1, 2018* *Inventory*Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were we to blame? The inventory was ours, not the other man’s. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 67 Thought to PonderIn order to recover we have to uncover. AA-related ' ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 31, 2018* *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, p. 53 Thought to PonderGod seldom becomes a reality until God becomes a necessity. AA-related 'Alconym'*G I F T*  =  *G*od *I*s *F*orever *T*here. Thanks to all of you ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 30, 2018* *Every Imaginable Remedy*We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 31 Thought to PonderWhen we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 29, 2018* *Humility*It was only by repeated humiliations that we were forced to learn something about humility. It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair. - Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 72 Thought to PonderHumility is not thinking less of myself, but think ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) January 28, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Faith Without Works*Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 14 - 15 Thought to PonderIf faith wi ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *January 27, 2018* *Inner Resource*What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self-discipline. With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 567 - 568 Thought to PonderTrust God. Clean house. Help others. AA-related 'Alconym'*F A I T H*  =  *F*acing *A*l ...Continue Reading