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Sunday, June 14, 2015

AA Thought for the Day - June 15, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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June 15, 2015

Self-worth
I know that I am not a total loss, even when I think I am.
I know that freedom and usefulness, love, outgoingness, and sharing are the important things in life.
But even more important, I have to care for me and achieve a sense of self-worth.
So I continue to listen. I am still open to suggestions. I continue on my way. And I am on my way up.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 1], pp. 24-25

Thought to Ponder . . .
Learn to listen; listen to learn.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A R T = Always Remain Teachable.

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

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Saturday, June 13, 2015

AA Thought for the Day - June 14, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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June 14, 2015

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Divine Grace
I'm still mystified by how I got sober,
and the only answer that makes sense is that I stopped drinking through the grace of God.
I was thinking about those of us who get sober and those who are still drinking,
and I believe the difference is that we have accepted the grace that was offered.
Every day, my Higher Power gives me the grace to be sober,
and every day I make the choice not to drink, to accept the grace.
The AA Grapevine, February 1993

Thought to Ponder . . .
The will of God will never take me where the grace of God will not protect me.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
G R A C E = Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations.

A Member Shares:
I'm Susan, an alcoholic. I wasn't too fond of any God when I arrived in AA. I was raised in the church but developed poor opinions on the whole God deal. I believe it was because that I had God's will confused with human will. For years, I woke up each day saying I was not going to drink, and every day I failed. Then one day, I woke up and somehow I knew that absolutely nothing and no one was going to stop me from going to an AA meeting. Where do you suppose that came from? All I can guess is that it came from God. Unfortunately, I did not recognize this at the time and I kept Him at a distance for many years of being sober. They were not very good years, just in case you were wondering. Then when a huge event occurred in my life within a 48-hour period, somehow I connected with my Higher Power. Since that day, our relationship has been developing slowly, and I have become a totally different person than I used to be. It shocks me sometimes, in fact. I wonder who this woman in the mirror is. I do not recognize her. I truly believe this has come about from finally "Letting Go and Letting God," as they say. I am blessed. I do not take sobriety or my HP for granted any more. I have watched too many go back out, and know that many never make it back. I cannot afford to forget that. Blessings, and thanks for listening.
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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
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AA Thought for the Day - June 13, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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June 13, 2015

Infinite Debt
It is with the deepest feeling that I here cast up AA's debt to the clergy: without their works for us,
AA could never have been born; nearly every principle that we use came from them.
Their example, their faith, and their beliefs in some part, we have appropriated and made our own.
Almost literally, we AAs owe them our lives, our fortunes, and such salvation as each of us has found.
Surely, this is an infinite debt!
- The Language of the Heart, p. 179

Thought to Ponder . . .
People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
F A I T H = Forever Always In The Heart.

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

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

AA Thought for the Day - June 12, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

June 12, 2015

Truth
I began with blind faith, but the proof of truth is that it works.
I believed those who said they had suffered from alcoholism, but, through AA, were now enjoying sobriety.
So the truth was there for me to see. But shortly I knew the truth from my own experience.
I was not only released from the compulsion to drink; I was guided toward a compulsion to live!
- Came To Believe . . ., p. 3

Thought to Ponder . . .
Truth is to inner space what sunshine is to a garden.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
F A I T H = Facing An Inner Truth Heals.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

AA Thought for the Day - June 11, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

June 11, 2015

Freedom
I ran into a personal crisis which 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.
I was free, and I didn't have to drink to "show them."
This wasn't "religion" -- this was freedom!
Freedom from anger and fear, freedom to know happiness and love.
- Alcoholics Anonymous [3rd Edition], p. 228

Thought to Ponder . . .
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H J F = Happy, Joyous, Free.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

AA Thought for the Day - June 10, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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June 10, 2015

Blessings
I started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning with having been born of sound mind and body.
I went through seventy-four years of living right up to the present moment.
The list ran to two pages, and took two hours to compile; I included health, family, money, AA -- the whole gamut. . .
When I remember my gratitude list, it's very hard to conclude that God is picking on me.
- Daily Reflections, p. 150

Thought to Ponder . . .
I am grateful for this minute. My eternity may be in it.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Always Awesome.

Monday, June 8, 2015

AA Thought for the Day - June 9, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

June 9, 2015

Resentments
I must face the fact that the resentment process is not only fruitless, it is self-defeating.
Justified or not, the resentment, and my efforts to bolster its justification,
will eat away at my peace of mind and my enjoyment of life.
Meanwhile, the person I resent couldn't care less.
Here I am burning myself to a crisp over something he or she may not be totally aware of, something I can't change. . .
So maybe what I need to do is take a look at changing myself.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 3], p. 107

Thought to Ponder . . .
Bless them; change me.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.