AA Thought for the Day <!--012326-->
Alcoholics are people whose drinking got them into a “blind alley.” They haven’t been able to learn anything from their drinking experiences. They are always making the same mistakes and suffering the same consequences over and over again. They refuse to admit they’re alcoholic. They still think they can handle the stuff. They won’t swallow […]
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“LET’S KEEP IT SIMPLE” A few hours later I took my leave of Dr. Bob. . . The wonderful, old, broad smile was on his face as he said almost jokingly, “Remember, Bill, let’s not louse this thing up. Let’s keep it simple!” I turned away, unable to say a word. That was the last […]
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In the beginning, you want to get sober, but you’re helpless, so you turn to a Power greater than yourself and by trusting in that Power, you get the strength to stop drinking. From then on, you want to keep sober, and that’s a matter of reeducating your mind. After a while, you get so […]
Promise of a new Day <!--012226-->
All our resolves and decisions are made in a mood or frame of mind which is certain to change. —Marcel Proust— When we are alert in the here and now we are constant collectors of new information. Consciously and subconsciously we sift through it and file it away not to be forgotten, however. Our opinions, […]
Keep it Simple <!--012226-->
Go often to the house of your friend: for weeds soon choke up the unused path. —Scandinavian proverb— Our program has two parts: the Steps, and the fellowship. Both keep us sober. We can’t stay sober if we go it alone. We need to work the Steps. We also need people—the help of our friends […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--012226-->
One cannot have wisdom without living life. —Dorothy McCall— Living life means responding, wholly, to our joys and our pitfalls. It means not avoiding the experiences or activities that we fear we can’t handle. Only through our survival of them do we come to know who we really are; we come to understand the strength […]
Keep it Simple <!--012126-->
What is defeat?…Nothing but the first step to something better. ––Wendell Phillips— A man walks into a meeting. He says,” I surrender. I can’t drink like other folks.” We smile and welcome him. We know that feeling. All of us in the program must admit defeat. Our illness is more powerful than we are. We […]
Promise of a new Day <!--012126-->
Let me listen to me and not to them. —Gertrude Stein— Our ears would fill with advice, if we listened to it: advertisers, evangelists, publishers, educators, all clamoring to market their products, try to get us to conform to their notions of what we should be. One of the dangers of a democratic society is […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--012126-->
To grasp the A.A. program, we have to think things out. Saint Paul said: “They are transformed by the renewing of their minds.” We have to learn to think straight. We have to change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must build up a new way of looking at things. Before we came into […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--012126-->
Too many activities, and people, and things. Too many worthy activities, valuable things, and interesting people. For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh— We need interaction with others, and we need activities. We have many gifts to offer those who cross our paths, […]