AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 24, 2025  Stability, Happiness and UsefulnessPeople of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about. Actually, we used to have no reasonable conception whatever. We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.- Alcoholics A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 23, 2025  The Hopeless FeatureIf you are satisfied that he is a real alcoholic, begin to dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady. Show him, from your own experience, how the queer mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of the will power.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 92  Thought to Ponder . . .The first drink has the last say.  AA-related 'Alconym'H O P E  =   Help Open People's Eyes. &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 22, 2025  A Bigger ExplosionIn our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure. If the alcoholic tries to shield himself he may succeed for a time, but he usually winds up with a bigger explosion than ever. We have tried these methods. These attempts to do the impossible have always failed.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 101  Thought to Ponder . . .God can do for us what ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 21, 2025  The Spiritual MaladyResentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 64  Thought to Ponder . . .We are prisoners of our own resentments. Forgiveness u ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)April 20, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Remove Our FearThe verdict of the ages is that faith means courage. All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do. We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68  Thought to PonderFear is not an admission of weakness ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 19, 2025  The Simple WayWe do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. It works—it really does. We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 88  Thought to Ponder . . .Into action, out of self.  AA-related 'Alconym'W I S D O M  =   When Into Sel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 18, 2025  It Did MatterWe could cheerfully perform humble labor without worrying about tomorrow. If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned that these troubles could be turned into great values. It did not matter too much what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) pp. 121 - 122  Thought to Ponder . . .When ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 17, 2025  Face Life SuccessfullyMore 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 discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter. We were reborn.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 63  Thought to Ponder . . .From darkness comes light.  AA-related 'Alconym'G I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 16, 2025  Some Trivial ReasonThey had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all. I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 42  Thought to Ponder . . .The ultimate defense against the first drink is a spiritual one.  AA-relate ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 15, 2025  Tradition FiveEach Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose—that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendix I, The AA Tradition) p. 563  Thought to Ponder . . .We're not living just to be sober; we are living to learn, to serve, and to love.  AA-related 'Alconym'P R O G R A M  =   People Relying On God Relaying A Message.  To Unsubscr ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 14, 2025  Their SymptomsThough we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. When a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67  Thought to Pond ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)April 13, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  All Resemblance EndedHe accepted the plan outlined in this book. One year later he called to see me, and I experienced a very strange sensation. I knew the man by name, and partly recognized his features, but there all resemblance ended. . . I talked with him for some time, but was not able to bring myself to feel that I had known him before.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxxi  Thought to PonderDon't give u ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 12, 2025  Fourth DimensionEveryone became resigned to the certainty that I would have to be shut up somewhere, or would stumble along to a miserable end. How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 11, 2025  Go FurtherAs we have seen, self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. It is a step in the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. Yet it is only a step. We will want to go further.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 98  Thought to Ponder . . .There is only one corner of the universe I can be cer ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 10, 2025  Safe and ProtectedWe are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 85  Thought to Ponder . . ...Continue Reading