*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 7, 2018* *Simple*Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements. Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all. - Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 13 - 14 Thought to PonderNew ideals and new attitudes bring a new life. AA-related 'Alconym'*S W ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 6, 2018* *Children of a Creator*We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 28 Thought to PonderN ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 5, 2018* *Spiritual Principles*If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it emphatic that /he does not have to agree with your conception of God/. He can choose any conception he likes, provided it makes sense to him. /The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles/. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 93 Thought to PonderI came; I came to; I came to believe. AA-related 'Alconym'*G O D*  = &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) March 4, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Sponsors*But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the main key to sobriety. Finally, he saw that I wasn't attempting to change his religious views, that I wanted him to find the grace in his own religion that would aid his recovery. From there on we got along fine. . . Years later, this tough Irish customer liked to say, “My sponsor sold me one idea, and that was sobriety. At the time, I ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 3, 2018* *In Any Meeting*In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.’s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics. Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, A.A.’s speak the language of the heart in all its power and simplicity. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xxiv Thought to PonderWithin our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession. AA-related 'Alconym'*E S H*  =  *E*xperience, *S*trength an ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 2, 2018* *Tradition Three**"Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation."* At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *March 1, 2018* Step Three“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God /as we understood Him/.” This is the how and why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn’t work. 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 ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 28, 2018* *Defense*Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 43 Thought to PonderI can't, He can, I'll let Him. AA-related 'Alconym'*F R O G*  =  *F*ully *R*ely *O*n *G*od. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experien ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 27, 2018* *Virtually Impossible*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 PonderAlc ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 26, 2018* *The Main Problem*These observations would be academic and pointless if our friend never took the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion. Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body. If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net) February 25, 2018 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Show Other Alcoholics*WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics /precisely how we have recovered/ is the main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be necessary. - Alcoholics Anonymous, Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii Thought to ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 24, 2018* *Abnormally Fearful*But now we see ourselves as chips off the same old block. At heart we had all been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond our depth and ability. The result was the same—all of us had nearly perished in a sea of alcohol. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 123 - 124 Thought to PonderBreathe in fai ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 23, 2018* *Prayer*Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul. - Twelve Steps & ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 22, 2018* *Laughter*So we think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness. Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But why shouldn’t we laugh? We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 132 Thought to PonderLaughter is medicine for the sober spirit. AA-related 'Alconym'*H J F*  =  *H*appy, *J*oyous, *F*ree. Thanks to all of ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day*(courtesy AA-Alive.net) *February 21, 2018* *A Psychic Change*On the other hand—and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand—once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xxix Thought to PonderThe greatest gift that c ...Continue Reading