AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 5, 2025  Club of AngerWe 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 . . .Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 4, 2025  TransformedIn a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself. He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought himself quite incapable.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 107  Thought to Ponder . . .We're not living just to be sober; we are living ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 3, 2025  Tradition Three“You are an A.A. member if you say so. You can declare yourself in; nobody can keep you out. No matter who you are, no matter how low you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications—even your crimes—we still can't deny you A.A. We don't want to keep you out. We aren't a bit afraid you'll harm us, never mind how twisted or violent you may be. We just want to be sure that you get the same great chance for sobriety that we've h ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 2, 2025  An Act of Will"Personally, I take the attitude that I intend never to drink again. This is somewhat different from saying, 'I will never drink again.' The latter attitude sometimes gets people in trouble because it is undertaking on a personal basis to do what we alcoholics never could do. It is too much an act of will and leaves us too little room for the idea that God will release us from the drink obsession provided we follow the A.A. program.&q ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)December 1, 2025  An Alcoholic MindThey had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all. I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 42  Thought to Ponder . . .Knowledge of the answers never made anyone slip; it was failing to practice the ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 30, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Match Calamity With SerenityPerhaps there is a better way—we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 29, 2025  GratitudeGratitude should go forward, rather than backward. In other words, if you carry the message to still others, you will be making the best possible repayment for the help given to you.- As Bill Sees It, (Gratitude Should Go Forward) No. 29  Thought to Ponder . . .Grateful is a feeling. Gratitude is an action.  AA-related 'Alconym'H U G S  =   Hope, Unity, Gratitude, Serenity.  To Unsubscribe - Click HereYou are currently ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 28, 2025  AmazedIf we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 83 - 84  Thought to Ponder . . .We cannot find peace by avoiding life.  AA-related 'Alconym'S T E P  = &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 27, 2025  Conscious ContactSought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 59  Thought to Ponder . . .If you want to stay protected, you have to be connected.  AA-related 'Alconym'P A U S E  =   Pay Attention, Use Step Eleven.  To Unsubscribe - Click HereYou are curre ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 26, 2025  Our Serenity PrayerIn the radiance of this prayer we see that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster. We now know that we do not have to run away, nor ought we again try to overcome adversity by still another bulldozing power drive that can only push up obstacles before us faster than they can be taken down.- As Bill Sees It,(Light from a Prayer) No. 20  Thought to Ponder . . .Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer. &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 25, 2025  Strong and GrowingIf we ever fail, it will be simply because of us. It will be because we can’t control our own egos, nor get along well enough with each other. It will be because we’re just not wise enough nor good enough to hold this thing together. It will be because we think too much about our ‘rights,’ and too little about our obligations and responsibilities. “But I don’t think we’re going to fall apart. I think we are going to stick together and ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 24, 2025  Needless Grief"I am a firm believer in both guidance and prayer. But I am fully aware, and humble enough, I hope, to see there may be nothing infallible about my guidance. The minute I figure I have got a perfectly clear pipeline to God, I have become egotistical enough to get into real trouble. Nobody can cause more needless grief than a power-driver who thinks he has got it straight from God."- As Bill Sees It, (Pipeline to God) No. 38 &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 23, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  This QualificationEven so, when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification: "…if it be Thy will." We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 102  Thought to PonderThe Three " ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 22, 2025  Tradition Three“The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.”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?- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Three) p. 141  Thought to Ponder . . .Any alcoholic is a member of A.A. when he ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 21, 2025  Emotional HangoverWhen 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 hangover ...Continue Reading