Need help with a daily reading I heard recently

[Mikmaq]

Hi everyone, my name is ken and I have been sober for just over two years (sober date August 14, 2006). I was looking for a daily reading I heard at a meeting in Kitchener Ontario this past Thursday, it was regarding topic covered on page 69 of the Big Book. Since I had to leave before the meeting ended I did not find out which particular daily text the reading came from. I found the reading to be interesting and of direct relevance at this stage of my recovery, especially the part of not loathing this particular gift of God. Since I have been unable to locate it, it may not be from that day August 16th and may have been chosen at random from the particular text.
Hence, if someone could help me that would be greatly appreciated. I wish everyone another sober 24.

[admin]

This is from page 69 of the Big Book:

We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.

Here are a couple of readings from As Bill Sees It:

Seeking Fool's Gold, p. 12

Pride is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to
true progress. Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or
upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our
God-given instincts. When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex,
security, and a place in society becomes the primary object of our lives,
then pride steps in to justify our excesses.

<< << << >> >> >>

I may attain "humility for today" only to the extent that I am able to
avoid the bog of guilt and rebellion on one hand and, on the other hand,
that fair but deceiving land which is strewn with the fool's-gold coins of
pride. This is how I can find and stay on the highroad to humility, which
lies between these extremes. Therefore, a constant inventory which can
reveal when I am off the road is always in order.

1. 12 & 12, pp. 48-49
2. Grapevine, June 1961

As Bill Sees It

God-Given Instincts, p. 142

Creation gave us instincts for a purpose. Without them we wouldn't
be complete human beings. If men and women didn't exert
themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest
food or construct shelter, there would be no survival. If they didn't
reproduce, the earth wouldn't be populated. If there were no social
instinct, there would be no society.

Yet these instincts, so necessary for our existence, often far exceed
their proper functions. Powerfully, blindly, many times subtly, they
drive us, dominate us, and insist upon ruling our lives.

<< << << >> >> >>

We tried to shape a sane ideal for our future sex life. We subjected
each relation to this test: Was it selfish or not? We asked God to
mold our ideals and help us to live up to them. We remembered
always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good,
neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.

1. 12 & 12, p. 42
2. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 69

http://brconline.org/AA/AsBillSeesIt.pdf