AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 28, 2022 Unselfishness and Love Since the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there. He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and love under his own roof. We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward,) p. 127 Thought to Ponder Right actions for the future ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 27, 2022 Dependence Upon God When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 116 Thought to Ponder The will of God will never take me where the grace of God will not protect me. AA-related 'Alconym' F A I T H   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 26, 2022 Step Six We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76 Thought to Ponder The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us. AA-related 'Alconym' H O W  =   Honest, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 25, 2022 Our Newfound Knowledge Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relationships. First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 24, 2022 Power of Choice He has lost control. At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected. The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 23 - 24 Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 23, 2022 New Attitudes If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care. These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply shaken by the shortcomings of others or by any calamity not of our own making. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 116 Thought to Ponder I never imagined that the g ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 22, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Blessings Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 95  Thought to Ponder Gratitude is a most effective painkiller for the alcoholic.  AA-related 'Alconym' B E S T  =  Been En ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 21, 2022 Emotional Sobriety Thus I think it can work out with emotional sobriety. If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God’s help, continually surrender these hobbling demands. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to Twelfth Step ourselves and others into emotional sobriety. - A.A. Grapevine, January 1958 Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 20, 2022 Carefully Reviewing Returning 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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, ( ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 19, 2022 Motives and Actions What real harm, therefore, had we done? No more, surely, than we could easily mend with a few casual apologies. This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful forgetting. It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. 79 Thought to Ponder Life begins at the end of our comfort zone. AA-related 'Alconym' W I S D O M   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 18, 2022 Needs and Wants This great experience that released me from the bondage of hatred and replaced it with love is really just another affirmation of the truth I know: I get everything I need in Alcoholics Anonymous—and everything I need I get. And when I get what I need, I invariably find that it was just what I wanted all the time. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Freedom From Bondage) p. 552 Thought to Ponder Forgiveness entered my life through my heart, not my head ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 17, 2022 Inner Resource What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self-discipline. With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Spiritual Experience, Appendix II) p. 567 Thought to Ponder The greatest gift that can come to anyone is a spiritual awakening. AA-rela ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 16, 2022 Deal With Sobriety God willing, we members of A.A. may never again have to deal with drinking, but we have to deal with sobriety every day. How do we do it? By learning—through practicing the Twelve Steps and through sharing at meetings—how to cope with the problems that we looked to booze to solve, back in our drinking days. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (To Handle Sobriety) pp. 558 - 559 Thought to Ponder The Twelve Steps -- a manuscript for rational living. A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 15, 2022 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Service You will be most successful with alcoholics if you do not exhibit any passion for crusade or reform. 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  ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) May 14, 2022 Thoroughness Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one. Calm, thoughtful reflection upon personal relations can deepen our insight. We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible ...Continue Reading