AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 13, 2017 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ ServiceNor is this the only kind of Twelfth Step work.  We sit in A.A. meetings and listen, not only to receive something ourselves, but to give the reassurance and support which our presence can bring.  If our turn comes to speak at a meeting, we again try to carry A.A.'s message.  Whether our audience is one or many, it is still Twelfth Step work.  - 12 Steps & 12 Traditions, p. 110 Thought to PonderServ ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 12, 2017* *An Illness*An illness of this sort—and we have come to believe it an illness—involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. If a person has cancer all are sorry for him and no one is angry or hurt. But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life. It engulfs all whose lives touch the sufferer’s.  - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 18 Thought to PonderRight actions for the fu ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 11, 2017* *Humility*Then, in A.A., we looked and listened. Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by humility into priceless assets. We heard story after story of how humility had brought strength out of weakness. In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life. But this admission price had purchased more than we expected. It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain. - 12 Steps & 12 T ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 10, 2017* ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Step Eight“Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks  and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake. To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 9, 2017* *Revelation*Even so has God restored us all to our right minds. To this man, the revelation was sudden. Some of us grow into it more slowly. But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him. When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us! - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 57 Thought to PonderFrom darkness comes light. AA-related 'Alconym'*A R T*  =  *A*lways *R*emain *T*eachable   Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 8, 2017* *Simple Ideas*Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62 Thought to PonderGod grant that AA may ever stay simple. AA-related 'Alconym'*W I L L I N G*  =  ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 7, 2017* *Motives*This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.  - 12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pp. 94 - 95 Thought to PonderSelf-righteousness is a loud din r ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 6, 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, pp. 42 - 43 Thou ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 5, 2017* *Self-Deceived*We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, “Grant me my wishes” instead of “Thy will be done.” The love of God and man we understood not at all. Therefore we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving enough grace to restore us to sanity. //- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,// p. 32 *Thought to Ponder . . .*Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer. *AA-related 'Alconym' . . .**F R O G* = *F*ully ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 4, 2017* *Avoidance *We also clutch at another wonderful excuse for avoiding an inventory. Our present anxieties and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior of other people—people who really need a moral inventory. We firmly believe that if only they'd treat us better, we'd be all right. //- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,// p. 45 *Thought to Ponder . . .*Delay is the deadliest form of denial. *AA-related 'Alconym' . . .**F E A R* = *F*ighting *E*go *A ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 3, 2017* *New Attitude*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. /~ Alcohol ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 2, 2017* RebornMore and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life. As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter. We were reborn.- Alcoholics Anonymous, p 63   Thought to PonderThe task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us. AA-related 'Alconym'F E A R   =   Face Everything And Rec ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *September 1, 2017* TroublesOur basic troubles are the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made “to practice these principles in all our affairs,” well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.- - Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p 114    Thought to PonderReliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity. AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 31, 2017* *Good Living**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. Twelfth Step.*/~ Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions,/ p. 125 *Thought to Ponder . . .**Right actions for the future a ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *August 30, 2017* *The Ladder**No one who drank as I did wakes up on the edge of the abyss one morning and says:**Things look pretty scary; I think I'd better stop drinking before I fall in.**I was convinced I could go as far as I wanted, and then climb back out when it wasn't fun anymore.**What happened was, I found myself at the bottom of the canyon thinking I'd never see the sun again.**AA didn't pull me out of that hole.  It did give me the tools to construct a l ...Continue Reading