AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 4, 2025  Under No ConditionUnder no condition do we criticize such a person or argue. Simply we tell him that we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past. We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do. His faults are not discussed. We stick to our own.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 77 - 78 &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 3, 2025  Step FiveTime after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. Trying to avoid this humbling experience, they have turned to easier methods. Almost invariably they got drunk. Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning. They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock.- Alcoholics Anonymou ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 2, 2025  Entire ConfidenceStrangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours. Until such an understanding is reached, little or nothing can be accomplished.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)April 1, 2025  Tradition Three“The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.” Why did A.A. finally drop all its membership regulations? . . . The answer, now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity itself. 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? As group ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 31, 2025  Causes and ConditionsThough 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.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 64  Thought to Ponder . . .We need to uncover in order to recover.  AA-related 'Alconym'A C T &n ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)March 30, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  A Genuine RelianceAs long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing.- - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72  Thought to PonderReliance on God enables me to match calamity with serenity.  AA-related 'Alconym'F R O G  =  Fully Rely On God.  A Member ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 29, 2025  A Vital PartIt 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. Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 94  Thought to Ponder . . .We must give it away to keep it.  A ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 28, 2025  A Power GreaterWhat often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self-discipline. With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendix II; Spiritual Experience) pp. 567 - 568  Thought to Ponder . . .In order to change the way I feel, I need to change the w ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 27, 2025  God and Another Human BeingHence it was most evident that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough. We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves—the help of God and another human being.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Five) p. 59  Thought to Ponder . . .Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 26, 2025  Quality of WillingnessBut now it appears that there are certain things which only the individual can do. All by himself, and in the light of his own circumstances, he needs to develop the quality of willingness. When he acquires willingness, he is the only one who can make the decision to exert himself. Trying to do this is an act of his own will. All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we tru ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 25, 2025  Really Worked In OthersBut we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore, we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 25  Thought to Ponder . . .What have I been given today? Am I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 24, 2025  We Are SureWe 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 . . .Happiness is part of the journey, not some distant destination.  AA-related 'Alconym'A L O H A  =   A Lot Of Happy Alc ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy AA-Alive.net)March 23, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  SimpleBelief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements. Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) pp. 13 - 14  Thought to PonderWhile it isn't always easy, if I ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 22, 2025  A Basic SolutionWe were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people—was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was.- Alcoholics Anonymous, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)March 21, 2025  PerspectiveNever was there enough of what we thought we wanted. In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had been our lack of humility. We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 71  Thought to Ponder . . .Humility is not thinking less of ...Continue Reading