AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 31, 2025  Most Cherished QualityThe unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has. Our lives, the lives of all to come, depend squarely upon it. We stay whole, or A.A. dies. Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; our world arteries would no longer carry the life-giving grace of God; His gift to us would be spent aimlessly. Back again in their caves, alcoholics would reproach us and say, “What a great thing A.A. might ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 30, 2025  Self-RestraintOur first objective will be the development of self-restraint. This carries a top priority rating. When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot. One unkind tirade or one willful snap judgment can ruin our relation with another person for a whole day, or maybe a whole year. Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 91 &n ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 29, 2025  Beyond QuestionIn A.A. we have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question. They are matters of knowledge and experience. All those who have persisted have found strength not ordinarily their own. They have found wisdom beyond their usual capability. And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand firm in the face of difficult circumstances.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 104  Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 28, 2025  AmazedI am amazed when I realize that I honestly cannot imagine life to be anything different than what it has been—and that is just fine with me. The tools of sobriety and recovery in A.A. are there for me to use in all aspects of my life, and all I ever need is the willingness to do what is in front of me. I am grateful that a drunk like me was fortunate enough to live until I arrived in Alcoholics Anonymous.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (On The Move) p. 4 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 27, 2025  We Remained Self-DeceivedWe had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." The love of God and man we understood not at all. Therefore we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving enough grace to restore us to sanity.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 32  Thought to Ponder . . .Denying the truth doesn't change the facts.  AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 26, 2025  Simply SayIn all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 40 - 41  Thought to Ponder . . .The stillness of God speaks louder than a choir of voices.   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 25, 2025  Peace and Good WillFaith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now. Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 16  Thought to Ponder . . .Happiness and peace of mind are always here, open and free to anyone. & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 24, 2025  OffendedWhen a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done." We avoid retaliation or argument. We wouldn’t treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 6 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 23, 2025  Soundness of Mind"Sanity" is defined as "soundness of mind." Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive behavior, whether the destruction fell on the dining-room furniture or his own moral fiber, can claim "soundness of mind" for himself.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 33  Thought to Ponder . . .Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.  AA-related 'Alc ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 22, 2025  The Same Question“Why don’t you just stop drinking?” our nonalcoholic friends ask when they see our situation. We shrug, and we smile with the charm most alcoholics can muster when necessary, and we change the subject quickly. But in the dank miasma of the pre-dawn sweats, when we lie sleepless and sick in the rumpled sheets, we ask ourselves the same question, and we cannot reply.- The Best of Grapevine, (Volume 1) p. 92  Thought to Ponder . . .O ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 21, 2025  Simple and Understandable TermsIf what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 28  Thought to Ponder . . .I saw, I felt, I believed.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 20, 2025  A Great ReliefI do not think I could have survived the burden of owing so much if AA had let me go on thinking it was all being done only for unworthy me. But I was assured that AA people kept themselves sober by trying to help me. It was also a great relief to be told that I could, in a sense, pay off my debt simply by talking to someone else some day, as I had been talked to.- The Best of Grapevine, (Volume 1) pp. 70-71  Thought to Ponder . . .S ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 19, 2025  Our CourseThis was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 66 - 67  Thought to Ponder . . .God save me from being angry. Thy will be done ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 18, 2025  Time After TimeWhat sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink? Friends who have reasoned with him after a spree which has brought him to the point of divorce or bankruptcy are mystified when he walks directly into a saloon. Why does he? Of what is he thinking?- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 35  Thought to Ponder . . .We are without defense against the first dr ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 17, 2025  A Power Greater Than OurselvesLack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that’s exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 45  Thought to Ponder . . .Willpower ... o ...Continue Reading