AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 19, 2025  To Lay Aside PrejudiceWe found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 46  Thought to Ponder . . .Perhaps I can stop trying to understand God and just accept that God is.  AA-related 'Alconym ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 18, 2025  Our ChoiceWhen we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be?- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 53  Thought to Ponder . . .If my way isn't working, am I willing to try something different?  AA-related 'Alconym'B I G   B O O K  =   Believi ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 17, 2025  Freedom From FearWhen, with God’s help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 122  Thought to Ponder . . .What I fear I create.  AA-related 'Alconym'F E A R  =   Face Everything And R ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 16, 2025  Move Toward HumilityTo those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be. Therefore, our first practical move toward humility must consist of recognizing our deficiencies. No defect can be corrected unless we clearly see what it is.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 58  Thought to Ponder . . .Learning is the very essence of h ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)June 15, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Emotional StabilityWhen we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 116  Thought to PonderReliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 14, 2025  This PowerLike 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 . . ."God had done for him what ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 13, 2025  Misuse of WillpowerIt is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation.Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 40  Thought to Ponder . . .Thy will, not mine, be done.  AA-relat ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 12, 2025  LessonsIn most cases our motives won't be hard to see and understand. When prideful, angry, jealous, anxious, or fearful, we acted accordingly, and that was that. Here we need only recognize that we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 94  Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 11, 2025  The TouchstoneSomeone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) pp. 93 - 94  Thought to Ponder . . .Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober.  AA-related 'Alc ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 10, 2025  The DelusionWe learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30  Thought to Ponder . . .The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A  =   Alcoholic's Answer.  To Unsubscribe - Click HereYou are cur ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 9, 2025 Hello Friends! We will be doing our final migration to our new provider over the next couple of days.  During this time you may receive your Daily Thought earlier or later than usual. I've tested the new sending provider over the past few days and everything is working quite well. Thank you for your understanding, patience and support through getting this sorted. I truly appreciate you!  A New LifeWe, in our turn, sought the same esc ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 8, 2025  Keep a Man Sober"As I go along I seem to get strength daily to be able to resist more easily. And when I get upset, cross-grained and out of tune with my fellow man I know that I am out of tune with God. Searching where I have been at fault, it is not hard to discover and get right again, for I have proven to myself and to many others who know me that God can keep a man sober if he will let him."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The European Drinker) 3rd E ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 7, 2025  Self-righteousnessSelf-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-related 'Alconym'A A &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 6, 2025  Restore Us to SanityTherefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Two) p. 33  Thought to Ponder . . .Let Go and Let God  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)June 5, 2025  BogeymenWhen AA suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look inside himself. Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!" But the testimony of AA's who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.- Twe ...Continue Reading