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We’ve been talking about nakedness.  Which got me thinking…we often use the argument of our body types to show that homosexuality is wrong.  We point to the fact that our “parts” are different.  Many of us are parents.  Children are really such simple creatures.  How many of you that are parents remember when one of your kids pointed to their  sexual parts and asked  “what is this”  or something along those lines?  I remember my own daughter asking me “why she had an extra hole”.  I wonder what people who have same sex attractions would say.  That “hole” has two purposes, and two purposes only.  To receive the mans sperm, and to serve as the  “way out” for babies in the process of being born.  What do they tell their kids when they ask what their penis is for?  Yes, it is used to urinate, but it is also used for something else.  It’s purpose, as we have explained to our children, is to “plant a seed” inside of a woman, and create a new life.

It’s obvious to any five year old girl that there are parts there that she doesn’t use.  It’s not so obvious to us.  We use these parts for the wrong reasons.  We thwart the very thing they were created to do.  Even if you are an atheist, you cannot deny that these parts, whether created or evolved, still serve a purpose.  A purpose that we seem hell bound to eradicate.   Which renders these parts virtually pointless.  How sad.

When God created us man and woman, He created us to share our bodies in a very special, very unique way.  If used properly, the most amazing thing happens.  A new life is created.  When a man donates himself to a woman, and a woman receives his gift, a “third” is created.  Something that wasn’t there before, suddenly is.

I wonder how awed Adam and Eve were, when they realized that sharing their bodies, resulted 9 months later, in a new life.  Were they shocked?  Did they know this would happen?  Were they thrilled? 

We have learned, throughout these weeks that our intimate, sexual acts, committed between a husband and  a wife, are meant to image God.  At the last supper, we heard God Himself, say to His friends, and to all of us, “THIS IS MY BODY, GIVEN UP FOR YOU”.  Nowhere, is it clearer, what is meant by these words, than when a man and woman unite in the marriage bed.  The husband says to the wife  “This is my body, I give it to you” and the husband in turn says “This is my body, I give it to you”…I wish those words were in the marriage vows. 

Somehow “THIS IS MY BODY, GIVEN UP FOR YOU” has turned into “This is my body…keep your hands off of it…you can’t tell ME what to do with my body…this is my body and I will share some of it, but not all of it…”  How far from the reality of the those words we have come.

Until we recognize that our bodies are physical expressions of our souls, until we fully understand their purpose, we will never understand the secret of life.  On page 29 we read:

If you are looking for the meaning of life, according to John Paul II, it’s impressed right in your body–in your sexuality!  The purpose of life is to love as God loves, and this is what your body as a man or woman calls you to.  A man’s body doesn’t make sense by itself.  Nor does a woman’s body.  But seen in light of each other, sexual difference reveals the unmistakable plan  of God that man and woman are meant to be a “gift” to one another. 

To give ourselves completely, to hold nothing back, to express our love in a physical way, to unite metaphysically by uniting physically…this is what God intended.  We must give ourselves completely to God.  To hold back even 2% is to lose.  To have a relationship with God you must give Him your ALL.  Anything less, and you are not in true union with Him.  The same holds true of man and woman.  To hold back anything in the relationship, is to shortchange the relationship.  To cheapen it.  You are not in true union, unless you are giving your ALL.  Totus Tuus.  Totally Yours.