AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 7, 2025  FaithIn this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 70 - 71  Thought to Ponder . . .Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grow ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 6, 2025  Director, Principal, FatherFirst 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 through which we passed to freedom.- - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 62  Thought to Ponder . ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 5, 2025  Faith Which Really WorksBy discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us. Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.- - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 43  Thought to Ponder . . .In order t ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 4, 2025  More Useful to OthersMost of us sense that real tolerance of other people’s shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others. Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 19 - 20  Thought to Ponder . . .What if I were caring rather than judgmental?  AA-related ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 3, 2025  Major Human FailingsLet's take a universally recognized list of major human failings—the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. It is not by accident that pride heads the procession. For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.- - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 48 &n ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 2, 2025  FearThis short word somehow touches about every aspect of our lives. It was an evil and corroding thread; the fabric of our existence was shot through with it. It set in motion trains of circumstances which brought us misfortune we felt we didn’t deserve. But did not we, ourselves, set the ball rolling? Sometimes we think fear ought to be classed with stealing. It seems to cause more trouble.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 67 - 68  Thoug ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 1, 2025  Higher PowerIn our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. Experience has taught us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried. They are questions for each individual to settle for himself.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 50 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 31, 2025  Unwilling to AdmitThey are always "going on the wagon for keeps." They are over- remorseful and make many resolutions, but never a decision. There is the type of man who is unwilling to admit that he cannot take a drink. He plans various ways of drinking. He changes his brand or his environment. There is the type who always believes that after being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time he can take a drink without danger.- Alcoholics ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 30, 2025  Continuous ActionMore sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life. That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in. Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life can bring the much-desired result.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 39 - 40  Thou ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 29, 2025  Test My ThinkingI was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within. Common sense would thus become uncommon sense. I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 13  Thought to Ponder . . .Thy Will, not mine be done.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  =   Found Always In Trusting Him.  To Unsubscribe - Click Here ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 28, 2025  Twelfth Step WorkWe 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.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 110  Thought to Ponder . . .Service is spirituality in action.  AA-related 'Alcony ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 27, 2025  A Mysterious WayAlmost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God. He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)January 26, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  No Effective Mental DefenseOnce more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 60 - 61  Thought to PonderI can't. He can. I'll ask Him to.  AA-related 'Alconym'F R O G  =  Fully Rely On G ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 25, 2025  A Faith That WorksPracticing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription. It reads: "This is the way to a faith that works."- Twelve Steps a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 24, 2025  This MovementIf any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor' ...Continue Reading