AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 20, 2025  A Great ReliefI do not think I could have survived the burden of owing so much if AA had let me go on thinking it was all being done only for unworthy me. But I was assured that AA people kept themselves sober by trying to help me. It was also a great relief to be told that I could, in a sense, pay off my debt simply by talking to someone else some day, as I had been talked to.- The Best of Grapevine, (Volume 1) pp. 70-71  Thought to Ponder . . .S ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 19, 2025  Our CourseThis was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 66 - 67  Thought to Ponder . . .God save me from being angry. Thy will be done ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 18, 2025  Time After TimeWhat sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink? Friends who have reasoned with him after a spree which has brought him to the point of divorce or bankruptcy are mystified when he walks directly into a saloon. Why does he? Of what is he thinking?- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 35  Thought to Ponder . . .We are without defense against the first dr ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 17, 2025  A Power Greater Than OurselvesLack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that’s exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 45  Thought to Ponder . . .Willpower ... o ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 16, 2025  Beyond Human Aid"Well, I’ll stop with the sixth drink." Or "What’s the use anyhow?" When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane. These stark and ugly facts have been confirmed by legions of alcoholics throughout history. But for the grace of God, there would have been thousands more ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 15, 2025  Do The Job ThoroughlyOnce we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene. As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable. These are the first fruits of Step Four.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) pp. 49 - 50  Thought to Ponder . . .I can’t find a solution if I do ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 14, 2025  Lost the Power of ChoiceHe has lost control. At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected. The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 23 - 24   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 13, 2025  A Way Up and OutWe have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it. 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.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125  Thought to Ponder . . .The Three A's ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 12, 2025  Fears Fall From UsWe pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 75  Thought to Ponder . . .Swallowing my pride will not get me drunk. &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 11, 2025  Intensive WorkPractical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89  Thought to Ponder . . .In AA, we discov ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 10, 2025  A Working FaithFor just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible. This was true even when we believed that God existed.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72  Thought to Ponder . . .Humility: Embracing my need for God's help always.  AA-related 'Alconym'E G O  =   Easing God Out. & ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 9, 2025  Happy, Joyous, and FreeWe are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 133  Thought to Ponder . . .My life became unmanageable not only from alcoholism, but because I can't manage my life on my own.  AA-related 'A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 8, 2025  A Mysterious WayOut of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 105  Thought to Ponder . . .Reliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenit ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 7, 2025  The Best of My WillingnessGood days and bad days, reality is a wild ride, and I wouldn’t miss it for the world. I don’t question how this program works. I trust in my God, stay involved in A.A. service, go to lots of meetings, work with others, and practice the principles of the Steps to the best of my willingness each day. I don’t know which of these keeps me sober, and I’m not about to try to find out. It’s worked for quite a few days now, so I think ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 6, 2025  In God's HandsWalk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. If you persist, remarkable things will happen. When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands were better than anything we could have planned. Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 100   ...Continue Reading