2025-11-22-AA Morning Snippet

2025-11-22-AA Morning Snippet

Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This short AA Morning Snippet offers a gentle start to the day, especially for those in recovery or supporting someone who is. Alyssa introduces herself plainly as an alcoholic and opens with a moment of silence for suffering and recovering alcoholics and their loved ones, setting a tone of humility and connection. You’ll hear the Serenity Prayer, followed by a reflection titled **“Only Two Sins”** from *Alcoholics Anonymous*, page 542.

The focus is on how true growth in recovery means avoiding two things: blocking someone else’s growth and blocking your own. Alyssa shares the idea that happiness can be slippery, especially when prayers for others secretly carry our own agenda. There’s an honest look at how our search for comfort can become “a boulder in the path of growth” for ourselves or others.

The reflection points out that pain, struggle, and setbacks can later be seen as stepping stones to serenity. You’ll notice a strong emphasis on humility, acceptance, and asking a higher power for help “not [to] cause another’s lack of growth today, or my own.” A reading from *Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions*, page 23, looks at “high and low” bottoms in AA.

Alyssa shares how AA used to mainly see very desperate drinkers, but over time many with jobs, families, and even “two cars in the garage” began to recognise their alcoholism. Younger people, “scarcely more than potential Alcoholics,” are mentioned too, with the key tool being honest reflection on the early signs in their own drinking histories.

The snippet closes with the Lord’s Prayer and a simple plea: “Dear God, please help me stay sober today.” It’s a calm, faith-leaning check-in that might help you pause, reflect, and ask: what can I do today to support growth—mine and someone else’s?