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

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