Hello Friends,
The following is for your information.
AA-Alive.net will be hosting 3 alkathons, Christmas day, New Year's Eve and New Year's day. The schedules are as follows.
Christmas day, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013
3:00am, 5:00am, 8:00am, 11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm, 11:00pm
New Year's eve, Tuesday, Dec.31, 2013
8:00am, 11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm,11:00pm
New Year's day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014
3:00am, 8:00am, 11:00am, 2:00pm, 8:00pm, 11:00pm
It would be a good idea to post this several times during the month.
Thank you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody.
Jackie L, alt. IGR, AA-Alive.net
PS Our url is www.aa-alive.net and we have open chat between meetings
24/7 if anybody wants to visit before Christmas.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Carrying the Message
~~~ 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 damned seriously.
Meetings. Availability. Talk, talk, talk. The willingness to listen with understanding
as the still-suffering alcoholic thrashes his way out of his mental mire.
Tolerance. Guilelessness. The honesty to face situations and people,
not go around them by the old, familiar route of sneakiness and subverted honesty.
"Carrying the message" is all these things.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 2], p. 179
Thought to Ponder . . .
In AA we carry the message ... not the mess.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
T L C = Tears, Laughter, Caring.
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.
(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 damned seriously.
Meetings. Availability. Talk, talk, talk. The willingness to listen with understanding
as the still-suffering alcoholic thrashes his way out of his mental mire.
Tolerance. Guilelessness. The honesty to face situations and people,
not go around them by the old, familiar route of sneakiness and subverted honesty.
"Carrying the message" is all these things.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 2], p. 179
Thought to Ponder . . .
In AA we carry the message ... not the mess.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
T L C = Tears, Laughter, Caring.
Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your
experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message.
Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
dailythought@aa-alive.org
Our Daily Thought Discussion Board is Live and Online!
Please join us for thoughtful conversation at:
http://dailythought.aa-alive.org
AA-Alive Online Meetings at:
http://www.aa-alive.net
8:00 AM Daily
2:00 PM Daily
8:00 PM Daily
11:00 PM Daily
(all times in Eastern Time)
All are welcome to attend!
Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
dailythought@aa-alive.org
Our Daily Thought Discussion Board is Live and Online!
Please join us for thoughtful conversation at:
http://dailythought.aa-alive.org
AA-Alive Online Meetings at:
http://www.aa-alive.net
8:00 AM Daily
2:00 PM Daily
8:00 PM Daily
11:00 PM Daily
(all times in Eastern Time)
All are welcome to attend!
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Willingness
~~~ 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
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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 the key of willingness, my worries and fears are powerfully transformed into serenity.
- Daily Reflections, p. 75
Thought to Ponder . . .
I can't do His will my way.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
W H O = Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness.
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.
(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 the key of willingness, my worries and fears are powerfully transformed into serenity.
- Daily Reflections, p. 75
Thought to Ponder . . .
I can't do His will my way.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
W H O = Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness.
A Member Shares:
Good morning everyone, my name is Debra and I am a grateful recovering alcoholic. I have been working on Step Three with my group for the last few weeks and have discovered that it is really at the heart of my recovery. When I first came into AA I was willing to turn my will over to anyone who could help me to stop feeling the way I was feeling. I was desperate. I hadn't lost any of the outside stuff but my insides were a total disaster -- my soul was basically dead. As time went on, I often asked the question "How do I know what God's will for me is?" I was baffled by this. But the more I come around, the clearer it is to me and sometimes the harder it is to follow. One thing I know for sure is that God, as I understand him/her, wants me to be sober and happy. But it is the day-to-day situations that sometimes confuse me so I try to keep a couple of things in mind. The first is that if ever I am confused about God's will for me I just don't do or say anything. I find that my gut usually gives me the answer, because the more AA I have in my head and in my heart, the more I get that unsettled feeling in my gut when something just doesn't feel right. And if I don't listen to that little voice inside my head and heart, I will get farther away from what God wants for me. And the farther I get away from that, the closer I get to picking up a drink. With all the noise of the world it is not always easy but if I just keep coming, the wisdom I get from AA drowns out all that noise. God will never lead me astray. And for today, I plan on turning my will and my life over to the God of my understanding. Thanks everyone for being here.
To respond to the sharer, please emailDTShare@aa-alive.org and it will be
forwarded to them.
(All shares are reproduced with the kind permission of the person sharing)
Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message.
Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
dailythought@aa-alive.org
Good morning everyone, my name is Debra and I am a grateful recovering alcoholic. I have been working on Step Three with my group for the last few weeks and have discovered that it is really at the heart of my recovery. When I first came into AA I was willing to turn my will over to anyone who could help me to stop feeling the way I was feeling. I was desperate. I hadn't lost any of the outside stuff but my insides were a total disaster -- my soul was basically dead. As time went on, I often asked the question "How do I know what God's will for me is?" I was baffled by this. But the more I come around, the clearer it is to me and sometimes the harder it is to follow. One thing I know for sure is that God, as I understand him/her, wants me to be sober and happy. But it is the day-to-day situations that sometimes confuse me so I try to keep a couple of things in mind. The first is that if ever I am confused about God's will for me I just don't do or say anything. I find that my gut usually gives me the answer, because the more AA I have in my head and in my heart, the more I get that unsettled feeling in my gut when something just doesn't feel right. And if I don't listen to that little voice inside my head and heart, I will get farther away from what God wants for me. And the farther I get away from that, the closer I get to picking up a drink. With all the noise of the world it is not always easy but if I just keep coming, the wisdom I get from AA drowns out all that noise. God will never lead me astray. And for today, I plan on turning my will and my life over to the God of my understanding. Thanks everyone for being here.
To respond to the sharer, please email
(All shares are reproduced with the kind permission of the person sharing)
Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message.
Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
dailythought@aa-alive.org
Our Daily Thought Discussion Board is Live and
Online!
Please join us for thoughtful conversation at:
http://dailythought.aa-alive.org
Please join us for thoughtful conversation at:
http://dailythought.aa-alive.org
Sunday, December 8, 2013
AA Thought for the Day December 8, 2013
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
December 8, 2013
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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 anyone, anyone at all, can begin to do it.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 35
Thought to Ponder . . .
What have I been given today?
Am I willing to reach out and grasp it?
A Member Shares:
My name is Hope, an alcoholic. I said at my first Women's Group that I want to live in Step Three, and the older ladies smiled. I felt silly -- such an obvious thought. The very first Third Step decision I made was to come each day to the first meeting. I didn't have to decide each day. I made one global decision, and indeed that has taught me how to listen. So I began to appreciate listening. I think the big question, as Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions says, is "How?." Just, how? And we are all seekers and finders each day. To bring my will in line with God's will -- that is the big "How" question one day at a time. And the path is beautiful. Who could have imagined asking such questions before? Not me. It's a gift at the heart of my sober life.
My name is Hope, an alcoholic. I said at my first Women's Group that I want to live in Step Three, and the older ladies smiled. I felt silly -- such an obvious thought. The very first Third Step decision I made was to come each day to the first meeting. I didn't have to decide each day. I made one global decision, and indeed that has taught me how to listen. So I began to appreciate listening. I think the big question, as Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions says, is "How?." Just, how? And we are all seekers and finders each day. To bring my will in line with God's will -- that is the big "How" question one day at a time. And the path is beautiful. Who could have imagined asking such questions before? Not me. It's a gift at the heart of my sober life.
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