AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 4, 2025  Tradition TenAlcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause. Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Tr ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 3, 2025  Our Own DesiresWhen we habitually try to manipulate others to our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily. Then we develop hurt feelings, a sense of persecution, and a desire to retaliate. As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant. We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society.- Twelve S ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 2, 2025  One More Attempt and FailureThe old pleasures were gone. They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt—and one more failure..- Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 151  Thought to Ponder . . .When we try to control our drinking, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 1, 2025  Agreed At The BeginningNow we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 76  Thought to Ponder . . .If I have the cour ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 30, 2025  Self-DeceptionDespite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 31  Thought to Ponder . . .Denying the truth doesn't change the facts.  AA-related 'Alconym'D E N I A L  =   Don't Even Notice It's A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 29, 2025  HumilityThe whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility. It is really saying to us that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 76  Thought to Ponder . . .Asking for help is a case of humility ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 28, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Living and ThinkingThey flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 50  Thought to PonderIt's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.  AA-related 'Alconym'B A T H  ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 27, 2025  A Fearless AdmissionSo far as alcoholics are concerned, A.A. would go even further. Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to another human being we could not stay sober. It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) pp. 56 - 57  Thought to Ponder . . .A fear faced is a fear erased.   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 26, 2025  Defiance"When we encountered A.A., the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no time had we asked what God's will was for us; instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not defiance."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 31  Thought to Ponder . . .I came. I came to. I came to believe.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  = &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 25, 2025  Continue, Improve and PracticeWords cannot begin to describe the feelings in my heart as I sometimes ponder how much my life has changed, how far I’ve come, and how much there is yet to discover. And though I’m not sure where my journey may take me next, I know I’ll owe it to the grace of God and to three words of the Twelve Steps: continue, improve, and practice.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Gutter Bravado) p. 511  Thought to Ponder . . .Alcohol ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 24, 2025  GrowthHenry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is the thing of supreme value in life. That is true only if one is willing to turn the past to good account. We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them into assets.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124  Thought to Ponder . . .I’m not what I think or feel, I am what I do.  AA-related 'Alconym'A C T  =   Action Changes T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 23, 2025  Step TwelveHaving had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60  Thought to Ponder . . .Life will take on new meaning.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =   Action Always.  To Unsubscribe - Click HereYou are currently subscribed to   Daily Thought Using the address:   & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 22, 2025  Our Spiritual ConditionWe could cheerfully perform humble labor without worrying about tomorrow. If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned that these troubles could be turned into great values. It did not matter too much what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) pp. 121 - 122  Thought to Pon ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 21, 2025  Experience, Strength and HopeIn spite of the great increase in the size and the span of this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal. Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Forward To Third Edition ) p. xxii  Thought to Ponder . . .Every recovery from alcoholism began with one sober hour.  AA-related ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 20, 2025  A GiftWhen a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) pp. 106 - 107  Thought to Ponder . . .The greatest gift that can come to anyone is a spiritu ...Continue Reading