AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 22, 2023Experience a Change...But A.A. has taught me I am the result of the way I reacted to what happened to me as a child. What is much more important to me, A.A. has taught me that through this simple program I may experience a change in this reaction pattern that will indeed allow me to "match calamity with serenity."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Freedom From Bondage) p. 554Thought to Ponder . . .My serenity is directly proportional to my level of acceptance ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)May 21, 2023~ Scroll Down for Share ~PrayerOn 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.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 86Thought to PonderPrayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer.AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  =  For All I Trust Him.A Member Shares:M ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 20, 2023DisciplineIt works—it really does. We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined. But this is not all. There is action and more action. "Faith without works is dead."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 88Thought to Ponder . . .Motivation may get you going, but discipline keeps you growing.AA-related 'Alconym'T R U S T  =   Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions.Thank you for sharin ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 19, 2023Remarkable and UnexpectedAlmost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God. He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 18, 2023Self-centered FearThe chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear—primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands. The difference between a demand and a simple request is plain to anyone.- Twelve St ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 17, 2023InterwovenThere is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. But when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 98Thought to Ponder . . .We can't grow without giving ourselves space for silence and the voice within.AA-related 'Alconym'F R E E  =   Fortunately, R ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 16, 2023Choice"As active alcoholics, we lost our ability to choose whether we would drink. We were the victims of a compulsion which seemed to decree that we must go on with our own destruction. Yet we finally did make choices that brought about recovery. We came to believe that alone we were powerless over alcohol. This was surely a choice, and a most difficult one. We came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity when we became willing to practice ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 15, 2023Step ThreeWe found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser. But it is better to meet God alone than with one who might misunderstand. The wording was, of course, quite optional so long as we expressed the idea, voicing it without reservation. This was only a beginning, though if honestly and humbly made, an effect, sometimes a very great one, was felt at once.- Alcoholics Anony ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)May 14, 2023~ Scroll Down for Share ~First Five ProposalsReturning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing what we have done. We thank God from the bottom of our heart that we know Him better. Taking 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.- Alcoh ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 13, 2023Continuous ActionMore sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life. That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in. Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life can bring the much-desired result.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 39 - 40Thought to Ponder . . ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 12, 2023Deprived OurselvesThe notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate. Many of us who had thought ourselves religious awoke to the limitations of this attitude. Refusing to place God first, we had deprived ourselves of His help. But now the words “Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works” began to carry bright promise and meaning.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 75Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 11, 2023UnityThus has it been with A.A. By faith and by works we have been able to build upon the lessons of an incredible experience. They live today in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, which—God willing—shall sustain us in unity for so long as He may need us.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition One) p. 131Thought to Ponder . . .There is no strength without unity.AA-related 'Alconym'A A's - R - U S  =   Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery Un ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 10, 2023Persistent EffortBy discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us. Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 43Thought to Ponder . . .Uncover. Discover. Discard.AA-related ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 9, 2023New TreasureJoy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. Father feels he has struck something better than gold. For a time he may try to hug the new treasure to himself. He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) pp. 128 - 129Thought to Ponder . . .In A.A., w ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)May 8, 2023He Talked My LanguageHe gave me information about the subject of alcoholism which was undoubtedly helpful. Of far more importance was the fact that he was the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience. In other words, he talked my language. He knew all the answers, and certainly not because he had picked them up in his reading.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Doctor Bob's Nightmare) p. ...Continue Reading