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

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 26, 2024  The Grace of GodWhen men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) p. 64 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)August 25, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~A Spiritual AwakeningWhen a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being. He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 24, 2024  PainstakingIf we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 83 - 84  Thought to Ponder . . .We cannot find peace by avoiding life.  AA-related 'Alconym'S T E P  = & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 23, 2024  The Home Has SufferedSince the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there. He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and love under his own roof. We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 127  Thought to Ponder . . .Right actions eac ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 22, 2024  Bare BeginningIs sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life -- the one that did not work -- for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.- As Bill Sees It, (A New Life) No. 8  Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 21, 2024  The Big BookIf you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: “Yes, that happened to me”; or, more important, “Yes, I’ve felt like that”; or, most important, “Yes, I believe this program can work for me too.”- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Preface to Fourth Edition) p. xii  Thought to Ponder . . .If you want to drink, that's your business. If you want to stop AA can help.  AA-related ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 20, 2024  The Inventory Was OursThough a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were we to blame? The inventory was ours, not the other man’s. When we saw our faults we listed them. We placed them before us in black and white. We admitted our wrongs honestly and were willing to set these matters straight.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67  Thought to Ponder . . .The first step in ov ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 19, 2024  The Joy of Good LivingFor it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all. Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125  Thought to Ponder . . .The Thre ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)August 18, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Lost the Power of ChoiceHe has lost control. At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected. The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solut ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 17, 2024  Tradition EightAlcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional. We define professionalism as the occupation of counseling alcoholics for fees or hire. But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for which we may otherwise have to engage nonalcoholics. Such special services may be well recompensed. But our usual A.A. "12th Step" work is never to be paid for.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Twelve Tradition ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 16, 2024  A Vital PartOutline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him. It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery. Actually, he may be helping you more than you are helping him.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 94  Thought to Ponder . . .We must give it away to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 15, 2024  AcceptanceAnd acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Acceptance Was The Answer) p. 417  Thought to Ponder . . .My serenity is directly proportional to ...Continue Reading