AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 28, 2024  A Full and Thankful HeartI try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.- As Bill Sees It, (A Full and Thankful Heart) No. 37  Thought to Ponder . . .When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.  AA-related 'Alconym'H J F  =   Happy, Joyous, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 27, 2024  Help Us Be WillingWe have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action,) p. 76  Thought to Ponder . . .Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door.  AA-related 'Alconym'L E T   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 26, 2024  Self-deceivedIn no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward. We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." The love of God and man we understood not at all. Therefore we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving enough grace to restore u ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 25, 2024  Step EightEvery A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake. To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)November 24, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  A Common SolutionThe feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined. The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A So ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 23, 2024  Every Imaginable RemedyWe are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp. 30 - 31  Thought to Ponder . . .Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 22, 2024  The Drinking GameWhen he sees you know all about the drinking game, commence to describe yourself as an alcoholic. Tell him how baffled you were, how you finally learned that you were sick. Give him an account of the struggles you made to stop. Show him the mental twist which leads to the first drink of a spree.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) pp. 91 - 92  Thought to Ponder . . .I am responsible for the effort -- not the outcome. &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 21, 2024  A Useful ProgramMany could recover if they had the opportunity we have enjoyed. How then shall we present that which has been so freely given us? We have concluded to publish an anonymous volume setting forth the problem as we see it. We shall bring to the task our combined experience and knowledge. This should suggest a useful program for anyone concerned with a drinking problem.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 19  Thought to Pond ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 20, 2024  AngerIf we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66  Thought to Ponder . . .Anger is just one letter away from danger.  AA-related 'Alconym'C A L M  =   Cause Anger Left Me.  To Unsubscribe - Click Here_Subscription Reminder_   You're Subs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 19, 2024  Countless Vain AttemptsTherefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30  T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 18, 2024  A Sick ManWhen 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." We avoid retaliation or argument. We wouldn’t treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)November 17, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  True IndependenceAnd the facts seem to be these: The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are. Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means of gaining true independence of the spirit.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 36  Thought to PonderAvoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  =  ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 16, 2024  Ghosts of YesterdayIf we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever. We have to talk to somebody about them.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 15, 2024  Make a DecisionTherefore, we who are alcoholics can consider ourselves fortunate indeed. Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to look for something better. So it is by circumstance rather than any virtue that we have been driven to AA, have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a H ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 14, 2024  A RequestPrayer, as commonly understood, is a petition to God. Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need. And we think that the whole range of our needs is well defined by that part of Step Eleven which says: “. . . knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” A request for this fits in any part of our day.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step E ...Continue Reading