AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 5, 2025  Free From ResentmentHe said, in effect: “If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. . . Even when you don’t really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Freedom From Bondage) p ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 4, 2025  Stop FightingIt wasn't A.A, that had the closed mind, it was me. The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as I could.- Tw ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 3, 2025  Highly Strained, Abnormal ConditionCessation of drinking is but the first step away from a highly strained, abnormal condition. A doctor said to us, “Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is, to some extent, ill.” Let families realize, as they start their journey, that all will not be fair weather.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 122  Thought to Ponder . . .Can we bri ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 2, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Everyday CompanionAlcohol became my everyday companion. At first, I considered it a friend; later, it became a heavy load I couldn’t get rid of. It turned out to be much more powerful than I was, even if, for many years, I could stay sober for short periods. I kept telling myself that one way or another I would get rid of alcohol. I was convinced I would find a way to stop drinking. I didn’t want to acknowledge that alcohol had ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)November 1, 2025  Continuous ActionMore sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life. That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in. Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life can bring the much-desired result.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 39-40  Though ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 31, 2025  A Sense of BelongingThere is no more aloneness, with that awful ache, so deep in the heart of every alcoholic that nothing, before, could ever reach it. That ache is gone and never need return again. Now there is a sense of belonging, of being wanted and needed and loved. In return for a bottle and a hangover, we have been given the Keys of the Kingdom.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Keys Of The Kingdom) p. 276  Thought to Ponder . . .Together we can ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 30, 2025  A Way of Living"Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before. My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange its best moments for the worst I have now. I would not go back to it even if I could."- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 29, 2025  Never HesitateWhile you were drinking, you were withdrawing from life little by little. Now you are getting back into the social life of this world. Don’t start to withdraw again just because your friends drink liquor. Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 102  Thought to Ponder . . .To be helpful i ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 28, 2025  Enjoying LifeWe have been speaking to you of serious, sometimes tragic things. We have been dealing with alcohol in its worst aspect. But we aren't a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying life.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 132  Thought to Ponder . . .Laughter is the sound of recovery.  AA-related 'Alconym'T L C  =   Tears, Laughter, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 27, 2025  Keynotes of HarmonyCourtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come into harmony with practically anybody. When in doubt we can always pause, saying, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." And we can often ask ourselves, "Am I doing to others as I would have them do to me—today?"- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 93  Thought to Ponder . . .The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 26, 2025~ Scroll Down for Share ~  Taken ActionYour candidate may give reasons why he need not follow all of the program. He may rebel at the thought of a drastic housecleaning which requires discussion with other people. Do not contradict such views. Tell him you once felt as he does, but you doubt whether you would have made much progress had you not taken action.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 94  Thought to PonderWillingness to try somet ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 25, 2025  Under His Own RoofSince the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there. He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and love under his own roof. We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 127  Thought to Ponder . . .Right actions each ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 24, 2025  Drink DeliberatelyBut even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective thought during the period of premed- itation of what the terrific consequences might be.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 37  Thought to Ponder . . ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 23, 2025  JustificationIn some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 37  Thought to Ponder . . .Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over, ...Continue Reading

AA Thought for the Day(courtesy aa-alive.net)October 22, 2025  Expel Their ObsessionWhen men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession.- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) ...Continue Reading