2026-10-13-AA Morning Snippet2026-10-13-AA Morning Snippet
AA Morning Snippets
Alyssa offers a brief morning AA reflection with prayers and readings on inventory, resentment, humility, and daily spiritual practice in recovery. The focus stays on practical steps to stay sober today by seeking tolerance, responsibility, and kindness.
3:11•13 Oct 2026
AA Morning Snippet: Resentment, Humility and Staying Sober Today
Episode Overview
- Begin the day with silence, prayer, and a focus on suffering and recovering alcoholics and their loved ones.
- Use unremitting inventories to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear, and act on them quickly.
- Admit, acknowledge, and accept responsibility for wrongdoing to grow in humility and freedom in recovery.
- Treat people who have wronged you as spiritually sick, asking God for tolerance, pity, and patience instead of retaliating.
- Turn thoughts toward someone who can be helped, strengthening understanding and usefulness to others.
“We saw that these resentments must be mastered. But how? We could not wish them away.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? This short AA Morning Snippets episode offers one person's answer through prayer, reflection, and a focus on daily spiritual practice. Hosted by Alyssa, who simply introduces herself as "an alcoholic", the snippet opens with a moment of silence for suffering and recovering alcoholics and their loved ones, grounding the day in connection and care.
You'll hear the Serenity Prayer in full, setting a calm tone: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference." From there, the focus moves to "unremitting inventories" from Alcoholics Anonymous, page 84.
Alyssa highlights the AA guidance to watch for "selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear" and to act quickly when they appear: ask God to remove them, talk to someone, make amends if needed, and then "resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help." It's honest and direct, aimed at people who want a practical, spiritual way to stay sober today, not just a theory.
She shares how this ongoing self-inventory is hard because of "ego, fear, and pride", yet says her freedom in AA grows as she admits and accepts responsibility for wrongdoing. Humility becomes a daily practice rather than a lofty idea. The episode also quotes "As Bill Sees It" on mastering resentments, noting how resentment can "actually kill" by driving someone back to drink.
Alyssa reads the suggestion to view those who wrong us as "perhaps, spiritually sick" and to ask God for "tolerance, pity, and patience" instead of retaliation or argument. The snippet closes with the Lord's Prayer and a simple request: "Dear God, please help me stay sober today. Amen." It's a calm, structured way to start the day of recovery—what small practice from this morning reflection could you carry with you today?
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