H0W TO STAY INTIMATE

Never too much

We can’t be thanked enough for what we do for our partners. Our partners can never be thanked enough for what they do for us. Here is a list of what we are thankful for. Sex, cooking, cleaning, caring for money, relationships with in-laws, appearance, dress, cleanliness, hair style, smell, kisses and touches and maybe more.

Love is not enough to keep a relationship going. You need to be mindful of each other’s physical, mental emotional and spiritual lives. Renew you commitments and agreements from time to time. Most of all be open and honest with each other and keep communicating -no silent treatments.

I am a steward of the giftts given me. I am a caretaker and owner of the gifts. I have the gifts of my body, spouse. children, money, talents as a cook, writer, therapist, preacher and pastor. I did not earn any of these. I did hone the skills and gifts I was given. I took courses, seminars and read books to improve my professional skills.

I have learned the Christian virtue of thankfulness. I am thankful for all the gifts given me, my life and wife, ears and tears, heart and art, money and honey, mind and kind, feet and meat, brains and grains, sex and love. . Everything, even pain and sadness, which make me grow and nurture.

Marriage - The person you marry is a free gift to you. You did nothing to earn that gift. It is a mystery. When you look at this person, see her or him as a gift rather than someone you earned and someone who owes you something. Some of us call this grace.

How to prepare for Advent? Read W.H. Auden's For the Time Being, a Christmas Oratorio. I have read it the weeks before Christmas for many years. It is funny, haunting and beautiful.