AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 20, 2025  Asked For HelpMy son would look at me and say,”Mom, why do you have to drink so much?” He was about eleven years old at the time. So one night I got on my knees and said, “God, change me or let me die.” It was at this point in my life that I called Alcoholics Anonymous and asked for help. They sent two ladies over to my house.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Winner Takes All) p. 377  Thought to Ponder . . .Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refu ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 19, 2025  Defeat to LiberationBut upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 21  Thought to Ponder . . .Sometimes God lets you hit r ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 18, 2025  Fooling OurselvesActually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 55  Thought to Ponder . . .Feed y ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 17, 2025  Something We Really WantedWe saw we needn't always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility. It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering. A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. It marked the time when we could commence to see the full implication of Step Seven: "Humbly asked Him to remove our sh ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 16, 2025  Followed Our PathRarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 58  Thought to Ponder . . .When all else fails, try following directions.  AA-related 'Alconym'A B C  =   ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 15, 2025  BaffledWhen he sees you know all about the drinking game, commence to describe yourself as an alcoholic. Tell him how baffled you were, how you finally learned that you were sick. Give him an account of the struggles you made to stop. Show him the mental twist which leads to the first drink of a spree.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) pp. 91 - 92  Thought to Ponder . . .We plant the seed and leave the outcome to God.  AA-related ' ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 14, 2025  A Subtle FoeIt is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 85  Thought to Ponder . . .I can't stay sober today on yesterday's actions.  AA-related 'Alconym'O D A A T  = &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 13, 2025  Step FiveAdmitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 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 ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 12, 2025  Peace and Quiet StrengthI got down on my knees for the first time in thirty years. The prayer I said was simple. It went something like this: "God, for eighteen years I have been unable to handle this problem. Please let me turn it over to you." Immediately a great feeling of peace descended upon me, intermingled with a feeling of being suffused with a quiet strength.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Man Who Mastered Fear) p. 251  Thought to ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 11, 2025  Key to Life and HappinessShowing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124  Thought to Ponder . . .We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.  AA-related 'Alconym'F A I T H &n ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 10, 2025  Related and InterwovenThere is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. But when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 98  Thought to Ponder . . .Today I pray over the things that I used to drink over.  AA-related 'Alconym'P A U S E  = &nbs ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 9, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Hitting BottomWhy all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step One) p. 24  Thought to PonderYou know you h ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 8, 2025  The Sole Purpose"This is why sobriety -- freedom from alcohol -- through the teaching and practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, is the sole purpose of the group. If we don't stick to this cardinal principle, we shall almost certainly collapse. And if we collapse we cannot help anyone."- As Bill Sees It, (Whose Responsibility?) No. 79  Thought to Ponder . . .The Twelve Steps -- a manuscript for rational living.  AA-related 'Alconym'A A &nb ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 7, 2025  Amazing SpeedIn 1941, a news clipping was called to our attention by a New York member. In an obituary notice from a local paper, there appeared these words: "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Never had we seen so much A.A. in so few words. With amazing speed the Serenity Prayer came into general use.- As Bill Sees It, (Learn in Quie ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 6, 2025  WillingnessWhen 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 trust, to God's will. It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) p. 40  Thought to Ponder . . .Thy will ...Continue Reading