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AA Morning Snippets
Alyssa guides a brief AA-style morning routine with prayer, spiritual reflections, and a boomerang story that hints at how long-standing patterns feed addiction. The focus stays on faith, community, and asking for help to stay sober just for today.
2:47•4 Jul 2026
Morning Faith, Boomerangs and a Simple Prayer for One Sober Day
Episode Overview
- Begin the day with a moment of silence and the Serenity Prayer to centre your thoughts on recovery.
- Recognise that a sense of God or a higher power can grow over time, even for former agnostics.
- Look for "miracles of recovery" in AA rooms as evidence that change is possible.
- Reflect on how long-standing emotional patterns, like the boomerang story, can shape addiction and recovery.
- Keep sobriety focused on today with the simple request: "Dear God, please help me stay sober today."
“Today, faith is as natural to me, a former agnostic, as breathing, eating, and sleeping.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? This short AA Morning Snippet offers a gentle start to the day for anyone in recovery who wants a few minutes of calm, connection, and focus before life gets busy. Hosted by Alyssa, who simply introduces herself as "an alcoholic", the episode moves through familiar AA structure: a moment of silence, the Serenity Prayer, a reading from *Daily Reflections*, and a passage from *AA Comes of Age*.
It’s aimed at people in recovery who appreciate routine, spirituality, and the reminder that they’re not doing this alone. The main theme is faith in a higher power, presented in a very down-to-earth way. Alyssa shares the reflection: "Today, faith is as natural to me, a former agnostic, as breathing, eating, and sleeping." There’s no preaching, just the idea that belief can grow slowly, especially when you see "miracles of recovery" happening in AA rooms everywhere.
The reading from *AA Comes of Age* uses a childhood story about trying to make a boomerang to hint at how early emotional patterns can later feed addiction: "Emotionally, I had begun the fashioning of another sort of boomerang, one that almost killed me later on." It’s a simple story that might make you smile, but it also lands a quiet punch about how long our drives and habits have been shaping us.
The snippet closes with the Lord’s Prayer and the classic AA reminder, "Keep coming back. It works if you work it," followed by the straightforward plea: "Dear God, please help me stay sober today." If you’re looking for a quick spiritual check-in, or just need a calm voice to help you set the tone for one sober day, this one might be exactly what you need right now.
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