*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 30, 2016* AA-Alive will be having a New Year's Eve & Day Alkathon! For the New Year's Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/new-years-alkathon.html *Self-concern* If we cannot or will not achieve sobriety, then we become truly lost, right in the here and now. We are of no value to anyone, including ourselves, until we find salvation from alcohol. Therefore, our own recovery and spiritual growth have t ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 30, 2016* AA-Alive will be having a New Year's Eve & Day Alkathon! For the New Year's Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/new-years-alkathon.html *Smile!* I smile because in my organization I am unorganized. I smile because I need not be a professional who has opinions he must cram down your throat. I smile because I can at last be myself, and if I don't attract anyone, at least I won't promote anyo ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 29, 2016* AA-Alive will be having a New Year's Eve & Day Alkathon! For the New Year's Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/new-years-alkathon.html *Pickles* We are convinced, after the countless attempts we made to prove otherwise, that alcoholism is incurable—just like some other illnesses.  It cannot be "cured" in this sense: We cannot change our body chemistry and go back to being t ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 28, 2016* ~~ AA-Alive will be having a New Year's Eve & Day Alkathon! ~~ For the New Year's Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/new-years-alkathon.html ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Action* Life will take on new meaning.  To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends —this is an experience you must no ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 27, 2016* AA-Alive will be having a New Year's Eve & Day Alkathon! For the New Year's Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/new-years-alkathon.html *Serenity* That word "serenity" looked like an impossible goal when we first saw the prayer. In fact, if serenity meant apathy, bitter resignation, or stolid endurance, then we didn't even want to aim at it. But we found that serenity meant no su ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 26, 2016* *Acceptance* Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes. /- Alcoholics Anonymous,/ p. 417 *Thought to Ponder . . .* Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. *AA-r ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 25, 2016* ~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Miracles* The age of miracles is still with us.  Our own recovery proves that! /- Alcoholics Anonymous,/ p. 153 *Thought to Ponder . . .* Refresh your spirit with everyday miracles. *AA-related 'Alconym' . . . *A A** = **A**ways **A**wesome. ** **A Member Shares:** Hi everyone, my name is Ellen, an alcoholic and bles ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 24, 2016* ~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html *Carrying the Vision* Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. "How can I best serve Thee — Thy will (not mine) be done." These are thoughts which must go with us constantly. /- Alcoholics Anonymous,/ p. 85 *Thought to Ponder . . .* I can't do His will my way. *AA-related 'Alconym' . . .* *O ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 23, 2016* AA-Alive is having a Christmas Eve & Day Alkathon! For the Christmas Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html *Any Length* If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it — then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked.  We thought we could find an easier, softer way.  But we could not. With all the ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 22, 2016* AA-Alive is having a Christmas Eve & Day Alkathon! For the Christmas Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html *No Cop-outs* We have to stay sober no matter how life treats us, no matter whether non-alcoholics appreciate our sobriety or not. We have to keep our sobriety independent of everything else, not entangled with any people, and not hedged in by any possible cop-out ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 21, 2016* AA-Alive is having a Christmas Eve & Day Alkathon! For the Christmas Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Thinking* How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act. . . Besides, we think, there is no one we can surely trust. We are certain that our intelligence, backed by wi ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 20, 2016* AA-Alive is having a Christmas Eve & Day Alkathon! For the Christmas Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html *Faith* When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned. /- As Bill Sees It,/ p. 2 *Thought to Ponder . . .* Breathe in faith, breathe out fear. *AA-related 'Alco ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) AA-Alive will be having a Christmas Eve & Day Alkathon! For the Christmas Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html *December 19, 2016* *Being Wary of Drinking Occasions* Just one more thing about this matter of drinking occasions. Many of us have had the guts, if pressure to drink really got unpleasantly strong, simply to make an excuse and leave, no matter what other people may think. Afte ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 18, 2016* AA-Alive is having a Christmas Eve & Day Alkathon! For the Christmas Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ *Miracles* Then the miracle happened—/to me!/  It isn’t always so sudden with everyone. . . The walls crumpled—and the light streamed in.  I wasn’t trapped.  I wasn’t helpless. I was /free./ /- Alcoholics Anonymous,/ p. 2 ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) AA-Alive will be having a Christmas Eve & Day Alkathon! For the Christmas Alkathon schedule and to sign up to help with a meeting, go to.... http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html *December 17, 2016* *There is a Solution* Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in ...Continue Reading