AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 5, 2025  A TornadoThe alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined. To his wife, he remarked, "Don't see anything the matter here, Ma. Ain't ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 4, 2025  An Open MindThird, all you really need is a truly open mind. Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the egg that came first. Again I say, all you need is the open mind.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 26  Thought to Ponder . . .It's hard to keep an open mind with an open mouth.  AA-related 'Alconym'H O W  =   Honest, Open-minded, Willing ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 3, 2025  Our Own MistakesPutting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were we to blame? The inventory was ours, not the other man’s.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67  Thought to Ponder . . .The first step in overcoming ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 2, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Could and WouldMany 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 . . . Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)August 1, 2025  Greatest ResponsibilityFaith is more than our greatest gift; its sharing with others is our greatest responsibility. May we of A.A. continually seek the wisdom and the willingness by which we may well fulfill that immense trust which the Giver of all perfect gifts has placed in our hands.- As Bill Sees It, (The Shared Gift) No. 13  Thought to Ponder . . .It is when you act on faith that you actually have it.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 31, 2025  More Beneficial To UsNevertheless, with a person we dislike, we take the bit in our teeth. It is harder to go to an enemy than to a friend, but we find it much more beneficial to us. We go to him in a helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret. Under no condition do we criticize such a person or argue.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 77  Thought to Ponder . . .Don't mess up an amend with an excuse ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 30, 2025  Acceptance and FaithAcceptance and faith are capable of producing 100 percent sobriety. In fact, they usually do; and they must, else we could have no life at all. But the moment we carry these attitudes into our emotional problems, we find that only relative results are possible. Nobody can, for example, become completely free from fear, anger, and pride.- As Bill Sees It, (All or Nothing?) No. 6  Thought to Ponder . . .I am no longer running the sho ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 29, 2025  Step SixWe have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action,) p. 76  Thought to Ponder . . .What have I been given today? Am I willing to reach out and grasp it?  AA-related 'Alconym'W H O & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 28, 2025  Change"It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change."- As Bill Sees It, (Personality Change) No. 1  Thought to Ponder . . .I can't think my way into right acting, but I can ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 27, 2025  InspirationWe relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 86 - 87  Thought to Ponder . . .Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer.  AA-related 'Alconym'P U S H  =   Pray Until Something Happ ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 26, 2025  Period of MeditationWe 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 Anonymous, (We Ag ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 25, 2025  Period of MeditationWe usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 87  Thought to Ponder . . .Thy Will, not mine, be done.  AA-related 'Alconym'A S A P  =   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 24, 2025  The Answer CameCould I be an alcoholic without some of the hair-raising experiences I had heard of in meetings? The answer came to me very simply in the first step of the Twelve Steps of A.A. “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”- Alcoholics Anonymous, (It Might Have Been Worse) p. 354  Thought to Ponder . . .If I think I am an alcoholic, chances are I am.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A A  =   Aw ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 23, 2025  Pride Steps InPride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts. When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 49  Thought to Ponder . . .Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.  AA-related 'Alco ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)July 22, 2025  To Be HelpfulOutline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him. It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery. Actually, he may be helping you more than you are helping him.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 94  Thought to Ponder . . .Service made me feel usef ...Continue Reading