AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 10, 2024  The KeystoneFirst 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 . . .Happiness ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 9, 2024  Faith Without WorksFaith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 8, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~Any LengthIf 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 earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58  Thought to PonderWhat have I been given today? Am ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 7, 2024  One Hundred Percent Hopeless"As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help. Had you offered yourselves as patients at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it. People like you are too heartbreaking. Though not a religious person, I have profound respect for the spiritual approach in such cases as yours. For most cases, there is vir ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 6, 2024  We Ask GodOn awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong m ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 5, 2024  No Middle-of-the-Road SolutionIf you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of- the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 4, 2024I'm sorry for the late arrival of your Daily Thought today. I'll do my best to get it out on time tomorrow.  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 . . .We nee ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 3, 2024  Misuse of WillpowerAll of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust, to God's will. It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intentio ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 2, 2024  Resentments and Prayer"Even when you don’t really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Freedom From Bondage) p. 552   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 1, 2024  WatchContinue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help. Love and tolerance of others is our code.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84  Thought to Ponder . . .Patience, tolerance, understanding and love are the watchword ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 31, 2024  His Will and His LifeSo how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power? He made a beginning, we have seen, when he commenced to rely upon A.A. for the solution of his alcohol problem. By now, though, the chances are that he has become convinced that he has more problems than alcohol, and that some of these refuse to be solved by all the sheer personal determination and courage he can muster.- Twelve S ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 30, 2024  Happy, Joyous and FreeWe are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 133  Thought to Ponder . . .Happiness and peace of mind are always here, open and free to anyone.  AA-related 'Alconym'F R E E  =   Fo ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 29, 2024  A Genuine RelianceWe could actually have earnest religious beliefs which remained barren because we were still trying to play God ourselves. As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72  Thought to Ponder . . .Take a walk with God. He will meet you ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 28, 2024  A Fearless Moral InventoryWhen AA suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look inside himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of AA's who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeyme ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 27, 2024  "Big-shot-ism"Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 92   ...Continue Reading