AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 16, 2025  Beyond Human Aid"Well, I’ll stop with the sixth drink." Or "What’s the use anyhow?" When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane. These stark and ugly facts have been confirmed by legions of alcoholics throughout history. But for the grace of God, there would have been thousands more ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 15, 2025  Do The Job ThoroughlyOnce we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene. As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable. These are the first fruits of Step Four.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) pp. 49 - 50  Thought to Ponder . . .I can’t find a solution if I do ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 14, 2025  Lost the Power of ChoiceHe has lost control. At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected. The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 23 - 24   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 13, 2025  A Way Up and OutWe have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it. For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125  Thought to Ponder . . .The Three A's ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 12, 2025  Fears Fall From UsWe pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 75  Thought to Ponder . . .Swallowing my pride will not get me drunk. &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 11, 2025  Intensive WorkPractical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89  Thought to Ponder . . .In AA, we discov ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 10, 2025  A Working FaithFor just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible. This was true even when we believed that God existed.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72  Thought to Ponder . . .Humility: Embracing my need for God's help always.  AA-related 'Alconym'E G O  =   Easing God Out. & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 9, 2025  Happy, Joyous, and FreeWe are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 133  Thought to Ponder . . .My life became unmanageable not only from alcoholism, but because I can't manage my life on my own.  AA-related 'A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 8, 2025  A Mysterious WayOut of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 105  Thought to Ponder . . .Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenit ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 7, 2025  The Best of My WillingnessGood days and bad days, reality is a wild ride, and I wouldn’t miss it for the world. I don’t question how this program works. I trust in my God, stay involved in A.A. service, go to lots of meetings, work with others, and practice the principles of the Steps to the best of my willingness each day. I don’t know which of these keeps me sober, and I’m not about to try to find out. It’s worked for quite a few days now, so I think ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 6, 2025  In God's HandsWalk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. If you persist, remarkable things will happen. When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands were better than anything we could have planned. Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 100   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 5, 2025  Club of AngerWe had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 47  Thought to Ponder . . .Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 4, 2025  TransformedIn a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself. He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought himself quite incapable.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 107  Thought to Ponder . . .We're not living just to be sober; we are living ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 3, 2025  Tradition Three“You are an A.A. member if you say so. You can declare yourself in; nobody can keep you out. No matter who you are, no matter how low you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications—even your crimes—we still can't deny you A.A. We don't want to keep you out. We aren't a bit afraid you'll harm us, never mind how twisted or violent you may be. We just want to be sure that you get the same great chance for sobriety that we've h ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 2, 2025  An Act of Will"Personally, I take the attitude that I intend never to drink again. This is somewhat different from saying, 'I will never drink again.' The latter attitude sometimes gets people in trouble because it is undertaking on a personal basis to do what we alcoholics never could do. It is too much an act of will and leaves us too little room for the idea that God will release us from the drink obsession provided we follow the A.A. program.&q ...Continue Reading