AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 8, 2022 Step Eleven Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 59 Thought to Ponder If you want to stay protected, you have to be connected. AA-related 'Alconym' A S A P  =   Always Say A Prayer. Thank you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 8, 2022 Step Eleven Sought through prayer and meditation to improve ourconscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 59 Thought to Ponder If you want to stay protected, you have to be connected. AA-related 'Alconym' A S A P  =   Always Say A Prayer. Thank you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 7, 2022 Our Fellowship We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain’s table. Unlike the feelings of the ship’s passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we g ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 6, 2022 Truth About Ourselves We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves—the help of God and another human being. Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 59 Thought to Ponder We need to share our problem ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 5, 2022 Tradition Eleven Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity. We think A.A. ought to avoid sensational advertising. Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed. Our public relations should be guided by the principle of attraction rather than promotion. There is never need to praise ourselves. We feel it better to let our friends recommend us. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 4, 2022 Enjoying Life We have been speaking to you of serious, sometimes tragic things. We have been dealing with alcohol in its worst aspect. But we aren't a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying life. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 132 Thought to Ponder Laughter is the sound of recovery. AA-related 'Alconym' H J F  =   Happy, Joyous, Free. Thank&n ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 3, 2022 A Prospect When you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all you can about him. If he does not want to stop drinking, don’t waste time trying to persuade him. You may spoil a later opportunity. This advice is given for his family also. They should be patient, realizing they are dealing with a sick person. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 90 Thought to Ponder AA is not for people who need it, it's for people who want it ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 2, 2022 Sanity Returned And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone—even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. - Alcoholi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) November 1, 2022 Attitudes and Actions Why 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. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 24 Thought to Ponder You know you have hit bottom when y ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 31, 2022 Meditation and Prayer Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. We no longer live in a completely hostile world. We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless. The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that sur ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 30, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Sanity One night after a Step Two meeting, I decided to find out what those courageous early members who put our Twelve Steps together really meant by sanity. I was a little surprised to find that my dictionary defined it as the quality of being sound of mind, sound of judgment, reasonable and rational in one's thoughts ... As I sat there mulling over the definition, an idea occurred to me: "This is what I’m to be restored ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 29, 2022 A Real Chance We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives. If we place instincts first, we have got the cart before the horse; we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment. But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first—then and only then do we have a real chance. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114 Thought to Ponder Get it - Give it - Grow in it. AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 28, 2022 Divine Paradox Even the newest of newcomers finds undreamed rewards as he tries to help his brother alcoholic, the one who is even blinder than he. This is indeed the kind of giving that actually demands nothing. He does not expect his brother sufferer to pay him, or even to love him. And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not. - Twelve Steps an ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 27, 2022 Nightly Review When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better?. . .  After making our review we ask God’s forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 26, 2022 Meditation There's nothing the matter with constructive imagination; all sound achievement rests upon it. After all, no man can build a house until he first envisions a plan for it. Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 100 Thought to Ponder Meditation is our step out into the sun. AA-related 'Alconym' K I S S  =   ...Continue Reading