*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 27, 2017* *Character Defects*If I drew a line between active alcoholism on one side and life as God wants me to live and has equipped me to on the other, then I'm somewhere in the middle, striving toward the ideal. If I allow my character defects to rule my life again and forget the AA program, forget where the power to change for the better comes from, I will, in the long run, inevitably drink again. - The Best of the Grapevine, [Vol. 3] p. 187 Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 26, 2017 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Prayer*Step Eleven suggests prayer and meditation. We shouldn’t be shy on this matter of prayer. Better men than we are using it constantly. It works, if we have the proper attitude and work at it. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 85 - 86 Thought to PonderThe Three "P's" -- Pause, Pray, Proceed. AA-related 'Alconym'*T G I F*  =  *T*hanking *G*od *I*s *F*reedom.   A Member Shares:I’m Deb and I’m an alcohol ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 25, 2017* *A New Employer*We had a new Employer. Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well. Established on such a footing we became less and less interested in ourselves, our little plans and designs. More and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 63 Thought to PonderThrough adversity, we find strength. AA-related 'Alconym'*F R O G*  =&n ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 24, 2017* *Morals and Philosophy*If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 44 - 45 Thought to PonderFaith makes the impossible possible. AA-related 'Alconym'*F E A R*  =  *F*ace *E*verything *A*nd *R*ecover.   Thanks to all of you ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 23, 2017* *Blessings*Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience. - Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 95 Thought to PonderGratitude is a most effective painkiller for the alcoholic. AA-related 'Alconym'*P R A Y E R*  =  *P*raying *R*egularly *A*llows *Y*our *E ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 22, 2017* *Spiritual Growth*At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him. . . .if we wished to grow we had to begin somewhere. So we used our own conception, however limited it was. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 47 Thought to PonderSpiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober. AA-related 'Alconym'*G O D*  =  *G*ift *O*f *D*esperation. & ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 21, 2017* *Consequences*In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37 Thought to PonderWhen I choose the behavior, I choose the consequences. AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 20, 2017* *Higher Power*On one proposition, however, these men and women are strikingly agreed. Every one of them has gained access to, and believes in, a Power greater than himself. This Power has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 50 Thought to PonderWillpower ... our will-ingness to use a Higher Power. AA-related 'Alconym'*B I G  B O O K*  =  *B*elieving *I*n *G*od *B*eats *O*ur *O* ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) November 19, 2017 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Blessings of Sobriety*We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness... Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. 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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83 -84 Thought to PonderSobriety is the adventure of a lifetime. And it begins the moment we ask AA for ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 18, 2017* *Real Alcoholics*Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not  going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove   themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 31 Thought to PonderI would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic,  than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 17, 2017* *Insane Idea*But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink. Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check. The insane idea won out. Next day we would ask ourselves, in all earnestness and sincerity, how it could have happened. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37 Thought to PonderThe ultimate defense against the first drink is a spiri ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 16, 2017* *Choice*At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected./The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink./ - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 24 Thought to PonderAlcohol -- cunning, baffling, powerful! AA-rel ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 15, 2017* *Directions*If we have carefully followed directions, we have begun to sense the flow of His Spirit into us. To some extent we have become God-conscious. We have begun to develop this vital sixth sense. But we must go further and that means more action. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 85 Thought to PonderFaith is mighty. Action with faith is mightier. AA-related 'Alconym'*A A*  =  *A*ccountable *A*ctions.   Thanks to all of you for shari ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 14, 2017* *Carry the Message*"AA is more than a set of principles; it is a Society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth will die." - The Language of the Heart, "What Is the Third Legacy?" Thought to PonderIn AA we carry the message ... not the mess. AA-related 'Alconym'*P R O G R A M*  =  *P*eople *R*elying *O*n *G*od *R*elaying *A* *M*essage ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *November 13, 2017* *Tradition Eleven*/"Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films."/ To us, however, it represents far more than a sound public relations policy. It is more than a denial of self-seeking. This Tradition is a constant and practical reminder that personal ambition has no place in A.A. In it, each member becomes an active guardian of our ...Continue Reading