AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 25, 2022 Practice These Principles The A.A. answer to these questions about living is “Yes, all of these things are possible.” We know this because we see monotony, pain, and even calamity turned to good use by those who keep on trying to practice A.A.'s Twelve Steps. And if these are facts of life for the many alcoholics who have recovered in A.A., they can become the facts of life for many more. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 112 Though ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 24, 2022 Causes and Conditions Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us. Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions. - ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 23, 2022 More Urgent If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever. We have to talk to somebody about them. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 55 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy aa-alive.net) October 22, 2022 Results of Prayer In A.A. we have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question. They are matters of knowledge and experience. All those who have persisted have found strength not ordinarily their own. They have found wisdom beyond their usual capability. And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand firm in the face of difficult circumstances. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 104 Thought to Po ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 21, 2022 Our First Need We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 47 Thought to Ponder The road to resentment is paved with expectations. AA ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 20, 2022 Spiritual Experience Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time. Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of the difference long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change could hardly have been brought about by himself alone. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 19, 2022 We Searched If 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 Ponder Each day, I can ask God to re ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 18, 2022 Blessings Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 95 Thought to Ponder Gratitude is a most effective painkiller for the alcoholic. AA-related 'Alconym' B E S T  =   Been Enjoying Sobriety Today? Thank&nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) I am delighted to tell you were are now on a new server with a new hosting company. I will put an update on the website also. (See link below) My deepest apologies for the frustration and mess this has been and that I made the wrong decision on the timing of moving to a new hosting company.  I'm sending out the October 17 Daily Thought again as the old server did not complete the sending to you.  I will be sending out the Daily Thought for Oc ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 16, 2022 Human Failings Let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings—the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. It is not by accident that pride heads the procession. For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 48 Thought ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 15, 2022 Humility Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps. For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 70 Thought to Ponder Learni ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 14, 2022 Inventory But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and any real ability to cope with life. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 48 Thought to Ponder Without change I am just a non-drinking drunk. AA-related 'Alconym' H O W  =   Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness. Thank  ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 13, 2022 Insanely Trivial Excuse But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink. Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check. The insane idea won out. Next day we would ask ourselves, in all earnestness and sincerity, how it could have happened. - Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 37 Thought to Ponder The first drink has the l ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 12, 2022 Emotional Hangover When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion—anger, fear, jealousy, and the like. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) October 10, 2022 Due to this massive problem with the host of our server, over half of our 15K Daily Thoughts are not able to be delivered. They had it fairly well restored and repaired last night however this morning it is totally messed up again. So I'm not able to attempt the sending of the Daily Thought out to our lovely Subscribers again or it will make part of the problem worse. This problem is affecting Yahoo! and aol email addresses the most. Also this makes it so ...Continue Reading