AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 12, 2024  InventoriesAlthough all inventories are alike in principle, the time factor does distinguish one from another. There's the spotcheck inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up. There's the one we take at day's end, when we review the happenings of the hours just past. Here we cast up a balance sheet, crediting ourselves with things well done, and chalking up debits where due. Then there are those occasions when a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 11, 2024  ObstaclesEach of us would like to live at peace with himself and with his fellows. We would like to be assured that the grace of God can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives. We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Trad ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 10, 2024  Kindness, Justice, CourtesyWe can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love. We can show kindness where we had shown none. With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 93  Thought to Ponder . . .It's never too late to be what I might have been.  AA-related 'Alconym'P U T  =   Practice Usin ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 9, 2024  Sincerely Trying to Grow"This is the Step that separates the men from the boys." So declares a well-loved clergyman who happens to be one of A.A.'s greatest friends. He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults—without any reservations whatever—has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the im ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 8, 2024  The Bright SpotLife will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends—this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89  Thought to Ponder . . .Sobriety is the adventure of ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 7, 2024  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?- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67  Thought to Ponder . . .Breathe in faith, breathe out fear.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  = &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 6, 2024  Spiritual AxiomIt is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this rule? What about "justifiable" anger? . . . We have found that justified anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle it.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 90  Thought to Ponder . . ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 5, 2024  Emotional HangoverWhen a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion—anger, fear, jealousy, and the like. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers.- T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 3, 2024IndependenceAnd 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. 36Thought to Ponder . . .Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door.AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  =   For All I Trust Him.To Unsubscribe - Click Here_ ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)June 2, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~Step ThreeWe can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives. Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific means shall we be able to let Him in? Step Three represents our first attempt to do this. In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to “a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”- Twelve Steps and Twelv ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 1, 2024MystifiedWhat sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink? Friends who have reasoned with him after a spree which has brought him to the point of divorce or bankruptcy are mystified when he walks directly into a saloon. Why does he? Of what is he thinking?- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 35Thought to Ponder . . .We are without defense against the first drink.AA-related 'Alconym'I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 31, 2024A Legitimate ReasonSo our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking,if we have a legitimate reason for being there. . . Go or stay away, whichever seems best. But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good. Do not think of what you will get out of the occasion. Think of what you can bring to it. But if you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead!- Alcoholics Anonymous ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 30, 2024Days Into YearsDr. W. W. Bauer, . . . said, in part: “Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders; not a temperance society. They know that they must never drink. They help others with similar problems . . . In this atmosphere the alcoholic often overcomes his excessive concentration upon himself. Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day. The days add up into weeks, the weeks into months and ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 29, 2024Neither Fear Nor FavorHaving so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 95Thought to Ponder . . .Inventory-taking is not always done in red ink.AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =   Always Aware.To Unsubscribe - Click Here_Subscription R ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 28, 2024Permanent RecoveryBut when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth’s description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster. He sobered, never to drink again up to the moment of his death in 1950. This seemed to prove that one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could. It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was v ...Continue Reading