"Longing for Wholeness"
"Longing for Wholeness"
In the polarity between man and woman, God is able to speak to us powerfully. We don’t know what’s going to happen. But it’s there, in what is opposite, hidden and scary for us: masculinity for the woman and femininity for the man. Contrary to popular opinion, men and women are not merely longing for warm bodies of the opposite sex; they’re longing for wholeness. Faithful friendship and true partnership teach us more than a shallow sexual encounter. As one minister told me after his many mistakes, “It took me a long time to admit that I can help people a lot more from my chair than by jumping in bed with them.”
from The Spiritual Family and the Natural Family
In the polarity between man and woman, God is able to speak to us powerfully. We don’t know what’s going to happen. But it’s there, in what is opposite, hidden and scary for us: masculinity for the woman and femininity for the man. Contrary to popular opinion, men and women are not merely longing for warm bodies of the opposite sex; they’re longing for wholeness. Faithful friendship and true partnership teach us more than a shallow sexual encounter. As one minister told me after his many mistakes, “It took me a long time to admit that I can help people a lot more from my chair than by jumping in bed with them.”
from The Spiritual Family and the Natural Family
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