AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 17, 2024  Step TenMore experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism. For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 88  Thought to Ponder . . .I can’t fix ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 16, 2024  Making AmendsWe are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do. His faults are not discussed. We stick to our own. If our manner is calm, frank, and open, we will be gratified with the result.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 77 - 78  Thought to Ponder . . .It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 15, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~  AmendsWe have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. We subjected ourselves to a drastic self-appraisal. Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76  Thought to PonderDon't mess up an amend with an excuse.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =  Accountable Actions.  A Me ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 14, 2024  I Am Now WillingWhen ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen." We have then completed Step Seven.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76  Thought to Ponder . . .I don ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 13, 2024  Step Six - WillingnessWe 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 . . .I can't. God can. I'll ask Him to.  AA-related 'Alconym'S T E P S  =   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 12, 2024  Step FiveWe will be more reconciled to discussing ourselves with another person when we see good reasons why we should do so. The best reason first: If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. Trying to avoid this humbling experience, they have turned to easier methods. Almost invariably they got drunk.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 72 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 11, 2024  ResentmentsThis was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 66 - 67  Thought to Ponder . . ."God save me from being angry. Thy will ...Continue Reading

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