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AA Morning Snippets
Alyssa offers a brief morning AA reflection featuring prayer, readings on fear and willingness, and encouragement to rely on a higher power for strength in sobriety. The episode focuses on simple daily practices that keep recovery and spiritual growth at the forefront.
2:38•9 May 2026
Morning Courage: Fear, Faith and a Simple Prayer to Stay Sober Today
Episode Overview
- Begin the day with a moment of silence and the Serenity Prayer to centre recovery.
- See character defects as linked to the need for security and love, rather than as isolated flaws.
- Use willingness, meetings, sponsor guidance, reading and self-searching to work Steps Six and beyond.
- Face specific fears with the help of a higher power, trusting that helping others can shift personal fear.
- View reliance on a higher power as a source of strength, not something to apologise for.
“We need not apologise to anyone for depending upon the creator. For us, it is the way of strength.”
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction? AA Morning Snippets offers a gentle start to the day, and this short episode with Alyssa is aimed at anyone in recovery who wants a calm, spiritually focused check-in before life gets busy. You’ll hear Alyssa introduce herself simply as “an alcoholic” and lead a quiet moment of silence for suffering and recovering alcoholics and their loved ones.
From there, she moves into the Serenity Prayer, setting a tone of humility and honesty that many people in recovery will recognise as home. The heart of the episode centres on the AA Daily Reflections reading, “Walking through fear”. The reading describes how, after taking Step Five, someone saw that their character defects came from a deep need to feel secure and loved.
Trying to fix everything with willpower alone “would have been trying obsessively to solve the problem”, so Step Six became about willingness, meetings, sponsorship, reading, and self-examination. A standout story is the fear of elevators during early sobriety. One day, deciding to face that fear, the person stepped into an elevator after asking for God’s help and found “a lady crying” who was also terrified. In comforting her, they forgot their own fear.
That simple moment showed how willingness and service can shift perspective and move someone forward in the steps. A passage from Alcoholics Anonymous on “the way of strength” reinforces that relying on a higher power isn’t weakness: “We need not apologise to anyone for depending upon the creator… for us, it is the way of strength.” The episode closes with the Lord’s Prayer and a straightforward request: “Dear God, please help me stay sober today.
Amen.” If you’re looking for a brief spiritual reset that keeps recovery front and centre, could this be the morning ritual you’ve been missing?
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