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- Scott Hayes: Good morning everyone, welcome back to Sober Readings. Today is Thursday the 26th of March. Today's reading from Daily Reflections. The teaching is never over. and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the road of happy destiny. May God bless you and keep you until then. And that's from the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 164. These words put a lump in my throat each time I read them. In the beginning, it was because I felt, ⁓ no, the teaching is over. Now I'm on my own. It will never be this new again. Today I feel deep affection for our AA Pioneers when I read this passage, realizing that it sums up all of what I believe in and strive for, and that with God's blessings, the teaching is never over. I'm never on my own, and every day is brand new. Today's reading from 24 Hours. March 26, AA Thought for the Day. Strength comes also from working with other alcoholics. When you are talking with a prospect and trying to help him, you are building up your own strength at the same time. You see the other fellow in the condition you might be in yourself and it makes your resolve to stay sober stronger than ever. Often, you help yourself more than the other fellow, but if you do succeed in helping him to get sober, You are stronger from the experience of having helped another man. So ask yourself, am I receiving strength from working with others? the meditation for the day. Faith is the bridge between you and God. It is the bridge which God has ordained. If all were seen and known, there would be no merit in doing right. Therefore, God has ordained that we do not see or know directly. But we can experience the power of His Spirit through our faith. It is the bridge between us and Him which we can take or not, as we will. There could be no morality without free will. We must make the choice ourselves. We must make the venture of belief. and today's prayer for the day. I pray that I may choose and decide to cross the bridge of faith. I pray that by crossing this bridge, I may receive the spiritual power I need. And today's final reading is from As Bill Sees It. Today we're reading from page 265. Neither dependence nor self-sufficiency. When we insisted, like infants, that people protect and take care of us, or that the world owed us a living, then the result was unfortunate. The people we most loved often pushed us aside or perhaps deserted us entirely. Our disillusionment was hard to bear. We failed to see that, though adult in years, we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody, friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself, into protective parents. We refused to learn that over-dependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down. especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable. That's from the 12 and 12 page 115. We are now on a different basis, the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our infinite selves. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us do and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity? And that's from the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 68. That brings us to the end of today's Sober Readings. Hey, I'd love to hear your thoughts and your comments on trudging the road of happy destiny. Because everyone seems to have a different opinion on what this really means, but I think it can mean something different to everyone. So I'd love to hear your opinion on that. Trudging the road to happy destiny and what that means to you. Send me an email at soberreadingswithscott at gmail.com or go to my website soberreadings.com and fill out the form. While you're there if you'd like to drop a dollar in the donation basket for today's readings just click the donate button So thanks for listening everybody take care of yourselves and each other and remember just for today Don't drink go to a meeting and keep coming back. Have a great day. And as my friend Larry says best day ever