AA Thoughts For Today - September

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AA Thought for the Day

September 8

Simple Ideas
Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director.
He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children.
Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of
the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62

Thought to Ponder
God grant that AA may ever stay simple.

AA-related 'Alconym'
W I L L I N G = When I Live Life, I Need God.

~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~

Solution
"The tremendous fact for every one of us
Is that we have discovered a common solution.
We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree,
and upon which we can join in brotherly and
harmonious action."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 17

Thought to Consider . . .
The solution is simple.
The solution is spiritual.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
S T E P S = Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety

*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*

A Long Way
From: "Into Action"
If we have no such complication, there is plenty we should do at home. Sometimes we hear an alcoholic say that the only thing he needs to do is to keep sober. Certainly he must keep sober, for there will be no home if he doesn't. But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife and parents whom for years he has so shockingly treated. Passing all understanding is the patience mothers and wives have had with alcoholics. Had this not been so, many of us would have no homes today, would perhaps be dead.
2001, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous, page 82

*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~*

"I am feeling much better now, and I thank God for AA and my good friends. I have learned how to accept their help."
Queens, N.Y., February 1971
"Carrying the Message"
Emotional Sobriety II

*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~*

And We have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity has returned. We can now react sanely & normally,
- Big Book, p. 84 1967 by A.A. World Services, Inc.

...the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception,
will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self
knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize,
to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to
us out of bitter experience.
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 39~

"This painful past may be of infinite value to other families still struggling with their problem."
-Alcoholics Anonymous p. 124

"This the sponsor promptly proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism, about his own defects, past and present."
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 46

Misc. AA Literature - Quote

'Don't be too discouraged about that slip. Practically always, we drunks learn the hard way.
'Your idea of moving on to somewhere else may be good, or it may not. Perhaps you have got into an emotional or economic jam that can't be well handled where you are. But maybe you are doing just what all of us have done, at one time or another: Maybe you are running away. Why don't you try to think that through again carefully?
'Are you really placing recovery first, or are you making it contingent upon other people, places, or circumstances? You may find it ever so much better to face the music right where you are now, and, with the help of the A.A. program, win through. Before you make a decision, weigh it in these terms.

Prayer for the Day: My Higher Power, My daily prayer is to best serve you, I pray I may continue to grow in understanding effectiveness; Help me to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear; Help me to be willing to have You remove them at once; I must be willing to discuss them with someone immediately; I will make amends quickly if I have harmed anyone; And then I will turn my thoughts toward helping someone else; Please help me to remember to practice love and tolerance of others. Amen.