AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 13, 2024Self-RestraintOur first objective will be the development of self-restraint. This carries a top priority rating. When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot. One unkind tirade or one willful snap judgment can ruin our relation with another person for a whole day, or maybe a whole year. Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 91Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 12, 2024Unexpected ResultsWe liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done miracles. But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong. Of course we finally did experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different; in fact we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation and prayer.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)February 11, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~A DecisionWe 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 Godas we understood Him."- Twelve S ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 10, 2024The Main ProblemIn this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life. We subjected each relation to this test—was it selfish or not? We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 69Thought to Ponder . . .Dependence on God is our chief source of strength.AA-related 'Alconym'W I L L I N G  =   When I Live Life, I Need God.To Unsubscribe - Click Here_Subscription Reminde ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 9, 2024The Main ProblemTherefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body. If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic’s drinking bout creates. They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the hea ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 8, 2024Learning DailyLearning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living. An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 95Thought to Ponder . . .The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action.AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =   Accoun ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 7, 2024Building An ArchTaking this book down from our shelf we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps. Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last. Is our work solid so far? Are the stones properly in place? Have we skimped on the cement put into the foundation? Have we tried to make mortar without sand?- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 75Tho ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 6, 2024Pride and FearSo when A.A. 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 within himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 5, 2024Expressing Our RegretNevertheless, with a person we dislike, we take the bit in our teeth. It is harder to go to an enemy than to a friend, but we find it much more beneficial to us. We go to him in a helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret. Under no condition do we criticize such a person or argue.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 77Thought to Ponder . . .Don't mess up an amend with an excuse.AA-related ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 4, 2024This FellowshipIn spite of the great increase in the size and the span of this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal. Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreword to Third Edition) p. xxiiThought to Ponder . . .To keep it, we have to give it away.AA-related 'Alconym'A A W O L  =   A A Way Of Life.Unsubscribe_ ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 3, 2024Wonderful RevelationIt 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 intention for us. To make this increasingly possible is the purpose of A.A.’s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.- Twelve Steps and Twelve ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 2, 2024RationalizationBut in other instances only the closest scrutiny will reveal what our true motives were. There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which was really wrong. The temptation here is to imagine that we had good motives and reasons when we really didn’t.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 94Thought to Ponder . . .Don't believe everything you think.AA-related 'Alconym'J A D E &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)February 1, 2024Reliance, Not Defiance“When we encountered A.A., the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no time had we asked what God's will was for us; instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not; defiance."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 31Thought to Ponder . . .There is a God. I am not Him.AA-related 'Alconym'E G O  =   Edging God Out.To Unsu ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 31, 2024An Alcoholic MindThey had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all. I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots. I had never been able to understand people who said that a problem had them ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)January 30, 2024Thoroughly FollowedRarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58Thought to Ponder . . .When all else fails, try following directions.AA-related 'Alconym'A C T  =   Action Changes Thing ...Continue Reading