“Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many.”
Ecclesiastes 11:7-8
I was speaking at a “Sacred Marriage” seminar at a hotel about two hours away from the host church. On Saturday night I spoke on sexual intimacy, and afterward the leaders handed out candles and Hershey’s Kisses for the couples’ private evening together.
This has happened several times before. Given the situation (at a hotel far from home, away from the kids), the setup (a Saturday-night talk on sex), the intimate gifts (a candle, and on one occasion, massage oil and bath salts), the conversation that inevitably follows (“Well, honey, I guess we better go apply the Word!”), everybody all but knows that practically everybody else is going to enjoy sexual intimacy that night. The seminar host even made a point of saying the Sunday-morning session wouldn’t start until 10:00 a.m., “so you can sleep in”(wink, wink).
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