AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 17, 2024  Absolutely Unable to StopBut the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 39  Thought to Ponder . . .Nobody ever found recovery as a result of an intellectual awa ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)June 16, 2024~ Scroll Down for Share ~Step TwelveHaving had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60  Thought to PonderA spiritual awakening is our greatest gift.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =  Amazing Awakening.  A Member Shares:I'm still Bill and alkie, and I'm getting hungry so I'll try going first. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 15, 2024  ResentmentResentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 64  Thought to Ponder . . .The road to resentment is paved with expectations.  AA-relat ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 14, 2024  Willingness to BelieveLet us make haste to reassure you. We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 46  Thought to Ponder . . .I came; I came to; I came to believe.  AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 13, 2024  No ReservationsWe have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.’’ Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 33  Thought to Ponder . . .Times change, alcoholism doesn't. & ...Continue Reading

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