AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 13, 2024Free of AngerFor when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die. If 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. 66Thought to Ponder . . .Those who anger me, conquer m ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 12, 2024*Human Failings*Let'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. 48Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 11, 2024The BedevilmentsWe were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people—was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Ag ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 10, 2024The Only ConditionBurn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 98Thought to Ponder . . .Who we are is not dependent upon someone else's opinion.AA-related 'Alconym'T R U S T  =   Try Really Using Step Three.To Unsubscribe - Click Here_Subscription Reminder_   You're Subscribed to: &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 9, 2024Receive GuidanceWe discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. Almost 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.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) pp. 104 - 105Thought to Ponder . . .Relationships are built with communic ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 8, 2024Do Not HesitateGod has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. Their services are often indispensable in treating a newcomer and in ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 7, 2024Moments of TriumphTo conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got. The usual outcome was that people continued to wrong us and we stayed sore. Sometimes it was remorse and then we were sore at ourselves. But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the victor onlyseemed to win. Our moments of triumph were short-lived.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66Thought to Ponder . . .It takes strength ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 6, 2024Continue to 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. 84Thought to Ponder . . .The 3 A’s -- Awareness, Acceptance, Action.AA-related 'Alconym'A A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 5, 2024NonsenseHe clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for. Nonsense. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job—wife or no wife—we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 98Thought to Ponder . . .In AA we don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the message.AA-related 'Alcony ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 4, 2024Insanity and DenialThey 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 Anonymou ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 3, 2024Reviewed Our Own ConductWe reviewed our own conduct over the years past. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, or inconsiderate? Whom had we hurt? Did we unjustifiably arouse jealousy, suspicion or bitterness? Where were we at fault, what should we have done instead? We got this all down on paper and looked at it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 69Thought to Ponder . . .The first step in overcoming mistakes is to admit them.AA-related 'Alconym'A A   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 2, 2024Fundamental Idea of GodActually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 55Thought to Ponder . . .People of faith ha ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 1, 2024Arch to FreedomThis is the how and why of it. First 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. 62Thought to Ponder . ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)March 31, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~ExpectationsI must keep my magic magnifying mind on my acceptance and off my expectations, for my serenity is directly proportional to my level of acceptance. When I remember this, I can see I’ve never had it so good. Thank God for A.A.!- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Acceptance Was The Answer) p. 420Thought to PonderMy disappointments are equal to my expectations.AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =  Acknowledge Acceptance. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 30, 2024Our FamiliesWe ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible. So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into A ...Continue Reading