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

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