Day #38
It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out.
1 Corinthians 7:2-4
Lord, we pray for marriages, that true intimacy would grow out of passionate love. Let it be a true love which gives and keeps on giving; a love which is patient and not demanding of its rights; a love joyously abandoned to giving pleasure and not obsessed with putting on a performance. Just as Adam and Eve in the garden were naked and unashamed, may there be no shame or embarrassment between husband and wife in every act of making love, but always only kindness – for our hearts are more fragile than we like to show.
Amen.