AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 19, 2025  One Simple ThingI have all these wonderful things—people who mean more to me than anything in the world. I shall keep all that, and I won’t have to drink, if I remember one simple thing: to keep my hand in the hand of God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Gratitude In Action) p. 199  Thought to Ponder . . .If you want to stay protected, you have to be connected.  AA-related 'Alconym'G I F T S  =   Getting It From The Steps.  To Unsubsc ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 18, 2025 My deepest apologies for the very late arrival of your Daily Thought today. I did not activate the schedule.   DemandsWe can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love. We can show kindness where we had shown none. With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 93  Thought to Ponder . . .Love ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 17, 2025  ProblemsYou and your husband will find that you can dispose of serious problems easier than you can the trivial ones. Next time you and he have a heated discussion, no matter what the subject, it should be the privilege of either to smile and say, “This is getting serious. I’m sorry I got disturbed. Let’s talk about it later.”- Alcoholics Anonymous, (To Wives) p. 118  Thought to Ponder . . .I can't think my way into right acting, but I can act my ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 16, 2025  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeHe is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He is seldom mildly intoxicated. He is always more or less insanely drunk. His disposition while drinking resembles his normal nature but little. He may be one of the finest fellows in the world. Yet let him drink for a day, and he frequently becomes disgustingly, and even dangerously anti-social.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p.21  Thought to Ponder . . .Alcoholic drinki ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 15, 2025  School of Life"In my view, we of this world are pupils in a great school of life. It is intended that we try to grow, and that we try to help our fellow travelers to grow in the kind of love that makes no demands. In short, we try to move toward the image and likeness of God as we understand Him. When pain comes, we are expected to learn from it willingly, and help others to learn. When happiness comes, we accept it as a gift, and thank God for i ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 14, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Fearless and ThoroughIf you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it—then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58  Thought to PonderWhat have I be ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 13, 2025  Spiritual AngleHow often do we sit in A.A. meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he has described a miracle of transformation which has occurred in him -- not only his release from alcohol, but a complete change in his whole attitude toward life and the living of it. . . So we smile and say to ourselves, "Well, that guy is just reeking with the spiritual angle -- exc ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 12, 2025  Make a DecisionSo it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 38  Thought to Ponder . . .Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H  =   For Al ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 11, 2025  My CreatorWhen ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen." We have then completed Step Seven.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 57  Thought to Ponder . . .I don’t ge ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 10, 2025  Willing to BelieveCircumstances made him willing to believe. He humbly offered himself to his Maker—then he knew. Even so has God restored us all to our right minds. To this man, the revelation was sudden. Some of us grow into it more slowly. But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him. When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us!- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 57  Thought to Ponder . . .I came; I came to; I came to beli ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 9, 2025  An A.A. ClassicHe said he wished he'd paid some attention to A.A. experience. Then he did something else that was to become an A.A. classic. It all went on a little card about golf-score size. The cover read: “Middleton Group #1. Rule #62.” Once the card was unfolded, a single pungent sentence leaped to the eye: “Don't take yourself too damn seriously.”- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Four) p. 149  Thought to Ponder . . .We aren't ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 8, 2025  AcceptanceToo much of my life has been spent in dwelling upon the faults of others. This is a most subtle and perverse form of self-satisfaction, which permits us to remain comfortably unaware of our own defects. Too often we are heard to say, "If it weren't for him (or her), how happy I'd be!" Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.- As Bill Sees It, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 7, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Character DefectsHuman beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are. Having found the shoes that fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at last on the right track.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 48  Thought to PonderSobriety is a gift, the price of which is eternal vigilance. &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 6, 2025  ConclusionsBy now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)September 5, 2025  Willingness and ActionIf asked what the two most important things in recovery are, I would have to say willingness and action. I was willing to believe that A.A. was telling me the truth. I wanted to believe it was true in a way I cannot relate in words. I wanted this thing to work. Then I began to take the course of action prescribed.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (My Chance to Live) p. 317  Thought to Ponder . . .If faith without works is dead, then wi ...Continue Reading