~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 20, 2013* *Carrying the Message* *What message?  Hope.  Example.  The way out.  The way back. A handful of simple principles to unravel most our snarled-up problems. A touch of humor -- not taking ourselves so dam ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 19, 2013* *The Journey* *The beauty of AA lies in knowing that my life, with God's help, will improve. The AA journey becomes richer, the understanding becomes truth, the dreams become realities -- and today becomes forever. As I ste ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 18, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Willingness My level of comfort is in direct relationship to the degree of willingness I possess at any given moment to give up my self-will, and allow God's will to be manifested in my life. With ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 17, 2013* */There is a Solution/* *Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 16, 2013* *"Reborn"* *For the first time, I began to understand that I couldn't drink like other people, that I wasn't like other people, and that I no longer had to try to be. I felt like Scrooge in the Dickens classic, &q ...Continue Reading

~~~ Holiday Alkathon! ~~~ Come celebrate with us! http://www.aa-alive.net/christmas-alkathon.html December 25 Christmas Alkathon Meeting Times (Eastern Time) 3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am,11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm. *AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 15, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Twelve Steps AA's Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 14, 2013* *Humility* /On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility:/ *"Perpetual quietness of heart.  It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret an ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 13, 2013* *Fear* *I was backed into a corner that I could not fight, lie, cheat, steal, or buy my way out of. I was trapped.  For the first time in my life, I uttered a sincere prayer: "God, please help me." I didn't bargain with Him, nor did I suggest how or when He should help. Immediately, I became calm and relaxed.  There was no flash of lightning or clap of thunder, not even a still, small voice.  I was scared.  I didn't kn ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 12, 2013* *Responsible* *Being responsible is my way of expressing my gratefulness to God for what He has given me. When we have new friends at our meeting, I do everything I can to make them feel wanted. Another pleasure that I receive is seeing newcomers return the following week and watching them slowly grow in the Fellowship and embrace a host of new friends who care. I once heard this definition at a meeting: "AA is people helping people." I'm ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 11, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Going to Any Length If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are ready to take certain steps.  At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way.  But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.* /- Alcoholics Anonymous,/ p. 58 *Thought to Ponder . . .* *L ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 10, 2013* *Miracle* *Then the miracle happened -- to /me!/  It isn't always so sudden with everyone, but I ran into a personal crisis that filled me with a raging and righteous anger. And as I fumed helplessly and planned to get good and drunk and /show them,/ my eye caught a sentence in the book lying open on my bed: "We cannot live with anger." The walls crumpled -- and the light streamed in.  I wasn't trapped.  I wasn't helpless. ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 9, 2013* *A Simple Program* *You are free to disagree or disregard any or all portions of this simple program.  That's your choice. But if you cannot stay sober or have not found happiness, joy, and freedom outlined in chapter five of the Big Book, I offer this suggestion: "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 prog ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 8, 2013 ~ Scroll Down for Share ~ Step Three* /"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."/ *To every worldly and practical beginner, this Step looks hard, even impossible. No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how /can/ he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is? Fortunately, we who have tried it, and with equal misgivings, can testify that a ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 7, 2013* *Faith* *When I was driven to my knees by alcohol, I was made ready to ask for the gift of faith. And all was changed. Never again, my pains and problems notwithstanding, would I experience my former desolation. I saw the universe to be lighted by God's love; I was alone no more.* /- As Bill Sees It,/ p. 51 *Thought to Ponder . . .* *Faith dares the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.* *AA-related 'Alconym' . . .* *F A I T H* = **F**ear **A** ...Continue Reading

*AA Thought for the Day* (courtesy AA-Alive.net) *December 6, 2013* *Ecstatic* *I now know that what is involved in taking the AA program entire, as the early AA's gave it to us, is not the prospect of turning into some sort of repulsive goody-goody. It's the threat of being truly alive, aware, and even perhaps /ecstatic./ I'm coming to believe that if I do not accept all of what this program offers (demands?), but instead walk away from it as somehow more than I bargained for, I might get drunk.* /- Came To Believe ...Continue Reading