*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 12, 2017* *Earnestness*There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all. I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 16 Thought to PonderIt is when you act on faith that you actually have it. AA-related 'Alconym'*F A I T H*  =  *F*acing *A*ll, *I*ntuitively *T*rusting ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 8, 2017* *The Channel*The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him. - Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 109 Thought to PonderPrayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer. AA-related 'Alconym'*P A U S E*  =  *P*ay *A*ttention, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 10, 2017 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Work*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. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 14 - 15 Thought to PonderWhile it isn't always easy, if I keep it simp ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 9, 2017* *Something Happens*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, pp. 22 - 23 Thought to PonderWithin ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 8, 2017* *This Phenomenon*All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. . .  . . .It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently  eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. XXX Thought to PonderIf we want to quit drinking, we are going to have to quit drinking. AA-related 'Alconym'*A A ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 7, 2017* *Our Inventory*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 PonderWe are prisoner ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 6, 2017* *Infinitely Grave*It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. 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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 66 Thought to PonderResentment is like ta ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 5, 2017* *Spiritual Principles*"Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before. My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange its best moments for the worst I have now. I would not go back to it even if I could." - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 22 Thought ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 4, 2017* *Faith*Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55 Thought to PonderFaith is like a muscle, the more we us ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) December 3, 2017 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *A Design for Living*But I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day. Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair. On talking to a man there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet. It is a design for living that works in rough going. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 15 Thought to PonderThe Twelve Steps — a manuscript for rational living. AA-re ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 2, 2017* *The Turning Point*Remember that we deal with alcohol—cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power—that One is God. May you find Him now! Half-measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His care and protection with complete abandon. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 58 - 59   Thought to PonderTake a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps.  AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 1, 2017* *Progressive Illness*All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals—usually brief—were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 30 Thought to PonderWhen we try to control ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 30, 2017* *One More Attempt*But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone. They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt—and one more failure. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 151 Thought to PonderWithin our wo ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 29, 2017* *Turmoil*The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 82 Thought to PonderThe Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action. AA-related 'Alconym'*N U T S*  =  *N*ot *U*sing *T ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 28, 2017* *Insanity*/He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic. Yet all reasons for not 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, pp. 36 - 37 Thought to PonderIt's not ...Continue Reading