AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 25, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Within Us We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 55  Thought to Ponder The power ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 24, 2022 The Great Fact Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 164 Thought to Ponder Trust God. Clean h ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 23, 2022 Resentments Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 90 Thought to Ponder Resentme ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 22, 2022 One Good Look We are certain that our intelligence, backed by willpower, can rightly control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in. This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work? One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 37 Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 21, 2022 God’s Help Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to. Neither could we reduce our self-centeredness much by wishing or trying on our own power. We had to have God’s help. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 62 Thought to Ponder I can't; God can; I'll ask Him to. AA-related 'Alconym' F R O G  =   Fully Rely On God. Thanks to all of you for sharing so ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 20, 2022 Faith Means Courage The verdict of the ages is that faith means courage. All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do. We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68 Thought to Ponder Courage is not the absence of fear, but taking action in ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 19, 2022 Forgiveness This vital Step was also the means by which we began to get the feeling that we could be forgiven, no matter what we had thought or done. Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 18, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Faith A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die. Faith is more than our greatest gift; its sharing with others is our greatest responsibility. - As Bill Sees It, No. 13  Thought to Ponder Hope leads to faith if you let it.  AA-related 'Alconym' F A I T H  =  Forw ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 17, 2022 Misery Transformed Until now, our lives have been largely devoted to running from pain and problems. We fled from them as from a plague. We never wanted to deal with the fact of suffering. Escape via the bottle was always our solution. Character-building through suffering might be all right for saints, but it certainly didn't appeal to us. Then, in A.A., we looked and listened. Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by humility into priceless ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 16, 2022 Inspired Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 87 Thought to Ponder Action without prayer is self-relia ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 15, 2022 Resentments Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. When a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done." - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 14, 2022 Show Him How Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection. Show him how they worked with you. Offer him friendship and fellowship. Tell him that if he wants to get well you will do anything to help. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 95 Thought to Ponder Never become so heavenly that you're no earthly good. AA-related 'Alconym' G R A C E  =   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 13, 2022 One Short Question We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?" As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (W ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 12, 2022 A Scant Chance As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our will power. If anyone questions whether he has entered this dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year. If he is a real alcoholic and very far advanced, there is scant chance of success. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 34 Thought to Ponder Alcoholism - Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, Patient. AA-rel ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) September 11, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Thoroughly Followed Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58  Thought to Ponder The express elevator to sobriety doesn't work -- please use the Step ...Continue Reading