*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 27, 2013* *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 such thing. When it comes to us now, it is more as plain recognition -- a clear-eyed, realistic way of seeing the world, accompanied by inner peace and strength.* /- Living Sober,/ p. 19 *Thought ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 26, 2013* *"Easy Does It"* *Relax a little.  Try for inner contentment.  No one individual can carry all the burdens of the world. Everyone has problems.  Getting drunk won't solve them. "Twenty-four hours a day."  Today is the day. Doing our best, living each day to the fullest is the art of living. Yesterday is gone, and we don't know whether we will be here tomorrow. If we do a good job of living today, and if tomor ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 25, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Peace Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it right here and now. Each day in my friend's kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.* /- Alcoholics Anonymous,/ p. 16 *Thought to Ponder . . .* *Joy is in knowing there is an answer.* *AA-related 'Alconym' . . .* **A A** = **A**lways **A**live. ** *A Member Shares: Good morning!  I'm Marco, a grateful ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 24, 2013* *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 u ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 23, 2013* *Footprints* *Stepping into the first footprint that led from the dismal swamp of alcoholism toward the sunlight of sobriety would not take me far enough. Would I muddle along on some little trail of my own in the weeds, va ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 22, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Forgiveness I did not know that if I had just forgiven myself for some of my past deeds, God would forgive me also. I was always taught to prepare for the journey through life, never realizing unti ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 21, 2013* *Remembering the Last Drunk* *The blunt, physiological truth for us, as of today, is that a drink pretty surely means a drunk sooner or later, and that spells trouble. Drinking /for us/ no longer means music and gay laughte ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 20, 2013* *Carrying the Message* *What message?  Hope.  Example.  The way out.  The way back. A handful of simple principles to unravel most our snarled-up problems. A touch of humor -- not taking ourselves so dam ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 19, 2013* *The Journey* *The beauty of AA lies in knowing that my life, with God's help, will improve. The AA journey becomes richer, the understanding becomes truth, the dreams become realities -- and today becomes forever. As I ste ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 18, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Willingness My level of comfort is in direct relationship to the degree of willingness I possess at any given moment to give up my self-will, and allow God's will to be manifested in my life. With ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 17, 2013* */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 ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 16, 2013* *"Reborn"* *For the first time, I began to understand that I couldn't drink like other people, that I wasn't like other people, and that I no longer had to try to be. I felt like Scrooge in the Dickens classic, &q ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 15, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Twelve Steps AA's Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 14, 2013* *Humility* /On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility:/ *"Perpetual quietness of heart.  It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret an ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 13, 2013* *Fear* *I was backed into a corner that I could not fight, lie, cheat, steal, or buy my way out of. I was trapped.  For the first time in my life, I uttered a sincere prayer: "God, please help me." I didn't bargain with Him, nor did I suggest how or when He should help. Immediately, I became calm and relaxed.  There was no flash of lightning or clap of thunder, not even a still, small voice.  I was scared.  I didn't kn ...Continue Reading