AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 12, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ The Taproot Proved beyond doubt by an immense experience, this is one of the facts of A.A. life. The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) pp. 21 - 22  Thought to Ponder We surrender to win.  AA-related 'Alconym' K I S S  =  Keep It Simple; ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 11, 2022 Strangely Insane However intelligent we may have been in other respects, where alcohol has been involved, we have been strangely insane. It’s strong language—but isn’t it true? - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 38 Thought to Ponder Insanity: doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. AA-related 'Alconym' A A  =   Amazing Awakening. Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, stre ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 10, 2022 Meaningful Sobriety Many an A.A., once agnostic or atheistic, tells us that it was during this stage of Step Five that he first actually felt the presence of God. And even those who had faith already often become conscious of God as they never were before. This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 9, 2022 Tradition Six An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendix I) p. 563 Thought to Ponder Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. AA-related 'Alconym' A A W O L  =   A A Way Of Life. Thanks to all of you for sharing so genero ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 8, 2022 Willing I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. I saw that growth could start from that point. Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build what I saw in my friend. Would I have it? Of course I would! - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 12 Thought to Ponder Hope leads to faith if you let it. AA-related ' ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 7, 2022 Special Vigilance Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is far more His success than ours. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 92 Thought to Po ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 6, 2022 Baffling Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it—this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 34 Thought to Ponder Alcohol — cunning, baffling, powerful! AA-related 'Alconym' F E A R  =   Few Ever Arrive Rejoicing. T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 5, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ A Basic Solution We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people—was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 4, 2022 Willingness to Believe Let us make haste to reassure you. We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 46 Thought to Ponder I came; I came to; I came to believe. AA-related 'Alconym' W I L L I N G ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 3, 2022 Problems We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it. For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125 Thought to Ponder The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptan ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 2, 2022 To Try Repeatedly "This is the Step that separates the men from the boys." So declares a well-loved clergyman who happens to be one of A.A.'s greatest friends. He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults—without any reservations whatever—has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) June 1, 2022 Truth We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 33 Thought to Ponder Times change, alcoholism doesn't. AA-related ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 31, 2022 Forgiveness 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 forgive- ness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it, too. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 58 Thou ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 30, 2022 Consequences In 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. 37 Thought to Ponder When I choose the behavior, I choose the consequences. AA-r ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 29, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Lack of Power Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that’s exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your pro ...Continue Reading