AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 18, 2026  Tradition One Our A.A. experience has taught us that: Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Twelve Traditions) p. 563  Thought to Ponder . . . Together we can do what we could never do alone.   AA-related 'Alconym' U S &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 17, 2026  Meditation We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow. Most certainly we shall need bracing air and an abundance of food. But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 98  Thought to Ponder . . . Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divine within you ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 16, 2026  Your Real Reliance Still you may say: "But I will not have the benefit of contact with you who write this book." We cannot be sure. God will determine that, so you must remember that your real reliance is always upon Him. He will show you how to create the fellowship you crave. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 164  Thought to Ponder . . . When in doubt, wait. Grow where you are planted.   AA-related 'Alco ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 15, 2026  Willing to Grow Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! I can’t go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60  Thought to Ponder . . . We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.   AA ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 14, 2026  Self-searching More experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism. For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 88  Thought to Ponder ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 13, 2026  Answers Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 164  Thought to Ponder . . . Trust God. Clean house. Help others.   AA-related 'Alconym' P R A Y E R &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 12, 2026  A New Sense Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another’s conception of God. Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him. As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 11, 2026  This Power Like myself, he had admitted complete defeat. Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known! Had this power originated in him? Obviously it had not. There had been no more power in him than there was in me at that minute; and this was none at all. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 11  Thought to Ponder . . . No God, no ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 10, 2026  A Disease It helped me a great deal to become convinced that alcoholism was a disease, not a moral issue; that I had been drinking as a result of a compulsion, even though I had not been aware of the compulsion at the time; and that sobriety was not a matter of willpower. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Acceptance Was The Answer) p. 416  Thought to Ponder . . . Recovered and cured are very different things. I can recover, but I'll never be c ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 9, 2026  This Power What is this power that A.A. possesses? This curative power? I don’t know what it is. I suppose the doctor might say, “This is psychosomatic medicine.” I suppose the psychiatrist might say, “This is benevolent interpersonal relations.” I suppose others would say, “This is group psychotherapy.” To me it is God. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Physician, Heal Thyself!) p. 308  Thought to Ponder . . . We will suddenly realize that God ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 8, 2026  Inventory By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us. Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 43  Thought to Ponder . . . In order to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 7, 2026  Remarkable Things Both you and the new man must walk 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. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. xxix  Thought to Ponder . . . Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us s ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 6, 2026  A Change On the other hand—and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand—once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxix  Thought to Pond ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 5, 2026  A Power Greater . . . once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve. Frothy emotional appeal seldom suffices. The message which can interest and hold these alcoholic people must have depth and weight. In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than thems ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) August 4, 2026  One of the Facts We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness and all its consequences. Until he so humbles himself, his sobriety—if any—will be precarious. Of real happiness he will find none at all. Proved beyond doubt by an immense experience, this is one of the facts of A.A. life. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 21  Thought to Ponder . . . ...Continue Reading