AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 20, 2023Emotional InsecurityThe most common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression. These stem from causes which sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without. To take inventory in this respect we ought to consider carefully all personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring trouble. It should be remembered that this kind of insecurity may arise in any area where instincts are threatened.- T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 19, 2023A Way Of LifeA.A. is not a plan for recovery that can be finished and done with. It is a way of life, and the challenge contained in its principles is great enough to keep any human being striving for as long as he lives. We do not, cannot, outgrow this plan.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Keys Of The Kingdom) p. 275Thought to Ponder . . .AA is not for people who need it, it's not even for people who want it; it's for people who will work it.AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 18, 2023Hit BottomWhy all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 24 - 25Thought to Ponder . . .You know you have hit bottom when you stop dig ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 17, 2023~ Scroll Down for Share ~Step ThreeEvery man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three. Isn’t it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics Anonymous? Already a willingness has been achieved to cast out one’s own will and one’s own ideas about the alcohol problem in favor of those su ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 16, 2023Beyond Human Aid"Well, I’ll stop with the sixth drink." Or "What’s the use anyhow?" When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane. These stark and ugly facts have been confirmed by legions of alcoholics throughout history. But for the grace of God, there would have been thousands more convin ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 15, 2023The Desperate ExperimentWhat sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink? Friends who have reasoned with him after a spree which has brought him to the point of divorce or bankruptcy are mystified when he walks directly into a saloon. Why does he? Of what is he thinking?- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 35Thought to Ponder . . .We are without defense against the first drink. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 14, 2023Certain IdeasIn the course of his third treatment he acquired certain ideas concerning a possible means of recovery. As part of his rehabilitation he commenced to present his conceptions to other alcoholics, impressing upon them that they must do likewise with still others. This has become the basis of a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families. This man and over one hundred others appear to have recovered.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Docto ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 13, 2023The MaladyIf 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. 92Thought to Ponder . . .Willpower ... our will-ingness to use a Higher Power.AA-related 'Alconym'H E A L  =   Helping Every Alcoholic Live.To Unsu ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 12, 2023Program of ActionThough I had been only a nominal churchman, their proposals were not, intellectually, hard to swallow. But the program of action, though entirely sensible, was pretty drastic. It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window. That was not easy. But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be.- Alcoholic ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 11, 2023IndecisionIn thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 86Thought to Ponder . . .The Three "P's" -- Pause, Pray, Proceed.AA-related 'Alconym'A S A P &n ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)September 10, 2023~ Scroll Down for Share ~Trust GodPerhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68Thought to PonderTake a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 9, 2023JustificationIn some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 37Thought to Ponder . . .When I choose the behavior, I choose the consequences.AA-re ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 8, 2023DisturbedWe had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 47Thought to Ponder . . .The road to resentment is paved with expectations.AA-related 'A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 7, 2023Accept RealityAbove all, we reject fantasizing and accept reality. . . I lived in a dream world. A.A. led me gently from this fantasizing to embrace reality with open arms. And I found it beautiful! For, at last, I was at peace with myself. And with others. And with God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (To Handle Sobriety) p. 559Thought to Ponder . . .The Twelve Steps -- a manuscript for rational living.AA-related 'Alconym'A G O  =   Another Growth Opportuni ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 6, 2023Absolutely UnableBut 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. 39Thought to Ponder . . .Pride in my intelligence blinded me to how much I did not know.AA-related 'Alco ...Continue Reading