AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 10, 2025  IsolationIsolation sneaks up on us. We can mask it with familiar props that are not in themselves bad. . . . The list is long. The nicest way to end it is the way you and I do: together. Reach out—people can't read your mind. Say ouch! Someone hears. Always.- The Best of the Grapevine, (Vol. 1) pp. 84–85  Thought to Ponder . . .Together we can do what we could never do alone.  AA-related 'Alconym'Y A N A  =   You Are Not Alone.   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 9, 2025  The Spiritual Approach"As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help. . . Though not a religious person, I have profound respect for the spiritual approach in such cases as yours. For most cases, there is virtually no other solution."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 43  Thought to Ponder . . .Faith makes the impossible possible.  AA- ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 8, 2025  A Bit of Good and BadA.A. and acceptance have taught me that there is a bit of good in the worst of us and a bit of bad in the best of us; that we are all children of God and we each have a right to be here. When I complain about me or about you, I am complaining about God’s handiwork. I am saying that I know better than God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Acceptance Was The Answer) p. 417  Thought to Ponder . . .My serenity is directly proportional to my ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 7, 2025  Demonstrations of FaithOur basic troubles are the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 114  Thought to Ponder . . .It is when you act on faith that you actually have it.   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 6, 2025  Business of ResentmentBut with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66  Thought to Ponder . . .Anger will never disap ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 5, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Took Stock HonestlyIf the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values. We did exactly the same thing with our lives. We took stock honestly. First, we searched out the flaws in our make-up which caused our failure. Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 64  Thought to ...Continue Reading

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