AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 9, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Grant Me Strength "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen." We have then completed Step Seven. Now we need more action, without which we find that "Faith without works is dead." ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 8, 2022 /Dearest Reader, I am aware that you are not receiving your Daily Thoughts as you should. My deepest apologies. I am working on a fix, along with our servver provider, with completeing a move to a new server to send your Daily Thought from.  Hopefully this will completely resolve the problems of the past week.  Thank you for your patience and understanding./ A.A.'s Simple Prayer With each passing day of our lives, may every one of us sense more ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 8, 2022 A.A.'s Simple Prayer With each passing day of our lives, may every one of us sense more deeply the inner meaning of A.A.'s simple prayer: God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can. And wisdom to know the difference. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125 Thought to Ponder Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it is peace within the storm. AA-related 'Alconym' H O P E   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 7, 2022 Progress "Day by day, we try to move a little toward God's perfection. So we need not be consumed by maudlin guilt for failure to achieve His likeness and image by Thursday next. Progress is our aim, and His perfection is the beacon, light-years away, that draws us on." - As Bill Sees It, No. 15 Thought to Ponder Sobriety is not a destination, but an everlasting journey. AA-related 'Alconym' S H A M E  =   Should Have Already Mastere ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 6, 2022 Twisted Relations But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 53 Thought to Ponder Ask yourself, "What would an adult do in this situation?" AA ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 5, 2022 Humility All of us saw, for example, that we lacked honesty and tolerance, that we were beset at times by attacks of self-pity or delusions of personal grandeur. But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we had yet acquired much actual humility. Though now recognized, our defects were still there. Something had to be done about them. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 58 Thought to Ponder Humility is t ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 4, 2022 Turning Point Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Remember that we deal with alcohol—cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power—that One is God. May you find Him now! Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 58 - 5 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 3, 2022 Firm Bedrock But upon entering AA we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 21 Thought to Ponder We surrender to win. AA-related 'Alconym' S W A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 2, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Revolutionary Change They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking. In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 1, 2022 A Regular Habit More experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism. For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 88 Thought to Ponder It's not making a ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 30, 2022 Useful to Others Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people’s shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others. Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 19 - 20 Thought to Ponder Love and tolerance of others is our code. AA-related 'Alconym' P U T &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 29, 2022 Affirmative Action Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God—or, if you like, a Higher Power—into our lives. Faith, to be sure, is necessary, but faith alone can avail nothing. We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 34 Thought to Ponder Willpower ... our will ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 28, 2022 Old Threadbare Idea The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people. There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 24 Thought to Ponde ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 27, 2022 Individual Strength This lack of anchorage to any permanent values, this blindness to the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result. For just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible. This was true even when we believed that God existed. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72 Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 26, 2022 Abnormally Fearful At heart we had all been abnormally fearful. It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond our depth and ability. The result was the same—all of us had nearly perished in a sea of alcohol. But today, in well-matured A.A.'s, these distorted drives have been restored to something like their true purpose and direction. - Twelve Steps and ...Continue Reading