Awake my beloved...

As you all know, Mondays we are going through the book, "Created to be His Helpmeet"....We are about 1/2 way through it....There is much more to cover...sooooo, stick with us....

Awake my beloved....
   This is a letter that the Pearls(the authors of this book) received from a real person...
   When I picked up your book, called "Holy Sex", I was afraid to read it. I thought you wou would tell me that what I was feeling was wrong---but you did not, and instead you have given me a wonderful gift.
   We have been married for 26 years, and our love is getting better as we grow older. This part of our mariage has always been fulfilling, we each seek to please each other. I have a wonderful partner in bed and I am blessed.
   Enjoying my husband has always been fine with me, but I have experienced a deeper longing and a "hunger" for him. I thought this was wrong. Times when I eand touched him from head to toe, for me  were feelings of adoration and sometimes worshipof him, and I felt it was all wrong. I loved him  sooo much, and I desired to pour all of my being into him, but I struggled with whether it was right to do so.
   There are times when I am so into him that at the end of our intimacy, I weep. He has asked me why, andIi can't explain, other then, with all that I am I feel grateful for his love. I feel completely satisfied.
   You have helped me accept that our Creator designed us to be spirit, soul, and body, and that "onenes" in flesh can be more than physical; it can have a spiritual and emotional essence that is pure.
   It was 2 this morning when I finished your book. I woke my beloved and shared myself with him without reservation. I wept in his arms afterwards, and all was good. Thank-you for your book.....
Brenda

   Marriage between and man and woman is a picture of our relationship with Christ. It is a great mystery. The physical union between a man and a woman is so beautiful, so otherworldly, that God uses this intimacy to illustrate out relationship to Him.
 The Great mystery includes spiritial closeness. emotions lopeness, the intensity of feelings, and the act of loving. Marriage in all its completeness is what God chose as an example of Christ and the Church. It wasnt something figured out by Adam and Eve and passed down through the ages to us.
"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled"(Hebrews 13:4).
   Brendas great satisfaction did not come because her husband was so spiritual, sensitive, or endowed with some special sexual gift. This couple is experiencing what God intends for all couples. In  husband and wife relationships, God always speaks first to the wife, telling her to submit , and then to the husband,  to LOVE,, Brendas relationship with her husband started with her attitude of honor and thanksgiving toward him. You can see where it took her.
   "There be 3 things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not, The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock;  the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid."(Prov. 30:18-19).



Love to all who read...
~~~**TERRI**~~~

This is it for today....More next week...

don't forget about the other book were going through...tomorrow...