Holy Sex!

Why do religions have so many moral rules about sexual intimacy? The rules can be a tool to help us grow in relationship to God, but they can and are often used as weapons to control another or others. It is a fine line. The rules exist to teach us to choose Love and serving God over, or before, self.

United we can create as a God, separate we cannot. Only united do we have the power of creation in this world.

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We unite with God in Spirit. The physical union between male and female created as a sacred bond between two that are pure of heart and intent, models the union in spirit.

Not all women and men need to be parents. Those who choose to be parents (and if they are choosing sexual union, they are choosing the potential to be parents), must shift their priority to that of their young, to the next generation, and away from themselves. The native people’s look to the subsequent seventh generation in their decision making, and we would be wise to follow their lead.

In today’s world there is a pseudo- freedom around the sexual union. It rebels against the idea that one must repress one’s sexual desires to only specific situations, i.e. marriage. We use our bodies and mate here and there, with one and then another. There is sexual attraction and the sexual union, before the existence of a spiritual union of love. We have sex yet do not want the resulting offspring. We do not desire a commitment and sometimes we don’t want to even see the person again.

The walk of shame the morning after is laughed about. Our media glorifies sexual unions before love. A man and woman meet and the next scene after a brief conversation they are naked and exchanging intimate bodily fluids. There is no love, merely an attraction. There is no affection, no concern for the other. The brief pleasure – the ecstasy in the moment of passion allows us to escape, if only briefly, this world and all its heavy sufferings. Often alcohol and/or other drugs are involved to help one to relax and release inhibitions. This lifestyle misses the mark. The persons involved rarely, if ever, experience soul love.

Rather than believing in waiting for sexual union after a soul union has taken place, impatiently one jumps the gun to try and force a soul union through the body. Sexual union is a sacred gift of our Creator. If we experience the act as sacred, we will soar to the heights of God. If, however, we experience it as a physical union of pleasure and desire only, it will leave us aching and wanting more of what can never satisfy us. We will remain in this void, seeking love, attempting to find love, believing we have found it, but eventually we are left empty and seeking again. This path yields many tears. Break the cycle. Treat one’s body as the temple of God it is and wait for a union of souls before offering and receiving the gift of bodies in Holy union.