XXX (R) VERSION 3

In
a bounded set,
like romantic love: using desire, longing, romance, and intercourse, but given the pressure of a heart-beating and the filling of life-blood, and then even pokiness, hardness and form by an internal structure of containment & sheath of commitment, allows it to play a private part in a pleasant passtime of an interlocking jigsaw, crossed with a seesaw, interlocuting, traversing, moving within an external sheath as part of an exquisite and private (both energizing and rest-inducing) game; where the one who has the most drive has the least power (they have to learn to woo, and learn about delayed gratification). And the one who has the least drive, has the most power (they can turn things on, make things grow, almost at the flick of a switch, like manipulating a handle). Pleasure per se. and this game for two are both God's gift to us, to strengthen and deepen and reward a relationship that is based on a promise [to (learn to) LOVE].
The question still at the centre remains.. will we USE this cover of "love" , to maintain, protect, and enhance (and advance) our own self? Or will we let God's wonderful game and mechanism transform us, as we see enacted in the game itself (transforming a slug into a sword, the untouchable distant hills of desire coming near out of pure giftingness and delightedness to be desired - and allowing themselves to be gotten), combined with a growing consideration for the other's limitations. Learning to work with a partner, majoring (in one's own thinking and then communication) on what can be done, not on what can't. Learning to own each other's personal preferences more tenderly, and to cling less tenaciosly to one's own. In short, since God is love, and thus is a community as well as an integrated singularity, this task, this game, seems to me to be a significant avenue or way, method, or means, by which he seeks to grow us to be like our maker, but much more than Maker, he is our Father (& Mother).
Amen.
XO