AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 17, 2026  The Truth I began with blind faith, but the proof of truth is that it works. I believed those who said they had suffered from alcoholism, but, through AA, were now enjoying sobriety. So the truth was there for me to see. But shortly I knew the truth from my own experience. I was not only released from the compulsion to drink; I was guided toward a compulsion to live! - Came to Believe, p. 3  Thought to Ponder . . . Truth is to our inner ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 16, 2026  The Great Obsession The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30  Thought to Ponder . ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 15, 2026  This Simple Cornerstone We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?" As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built. - Alcoholics A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 14, 2026  A Better Way Perhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 68  Thought to Ponder . . ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 13, 2026  Absolute Certainty The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 25  Thought to Ponder . . . My life hereafter is from this moment on.   AA-related 'Alconym' F A I T H  =   Faci ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 12, 2026  Misdirected Instinct Nearly every serious emotional problem can be seen as a case of misdirected instinct. When that happens, our great natural assets, the instincts, have turned into physical and mental liabilities. Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 42  Thought to Ponder . . . I need to uncover in ord ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 11, 2026  Conscious Contact We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) pp. 104-105  Thought to Ponder . . . The Th ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 10, 2026  Honesty Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical. When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 60  Thought to Ponder . . . Being honest, ev ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 9, 2026  Tradition Three “The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.”At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic’s full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery. Who dared to be judge, jury, and executioner of his own sick brother? - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Three) p. 141  Thought to Ponder . . . Any alcoholic is a member of ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 8, 2026  The Surest Help of All . . . repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation. Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all—our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 30  Though ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 7, 2026  We Learned Better Self-righteousness, the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was our own besetting evil. This phony form of respectability was our undoing, so far as faith was concerned. But finally, driven to A.A., we learned better. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 30  Thought to Ponder . . . You can't think yourself into good living. You must live yourself into good thinking.   AA-rela ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 6, 2026I'm sorry for the late arrival of your Daily Thought today.  Right Action 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. Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, ( ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 5, 2026  Dependence and Independence And the facts seem to be these: The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are. Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means of gaining true independence of the spirit. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p.36  Thought to Ponder . . . Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door.   AA-related 'Alconym' F A I T H   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 4, 2026  Precious Blessings We know that our very lives, our miraculous new chance to live, to learn, to grow and to serve, is the supreme gift of Grace which has come to us from Him who presides over us all. May we joyfully meditate upon these precious blessings as never before. - AA Grapevine, (December 1963)  Thought to Ponder . . . Gratitude is just about the finest attribute we can have.   AA-related 'Alconym' H U G S  =   H ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) June 3, 2026  Life and Happiness Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124  Thought to Ponder . . . In AA, we discover that it is impossible to give without receiving, or receive without giving ...Continue Reading