Growing up, sexual intimacy was always a very taboo topic in
my mind. I was given “the talk” by my mother when I was about eight years old,
but always thought of being intimate as something that was “gross” and not
something that I ever wanted to think about or talk about. As I advanced in age
and entered the stage of life where I could date, I remember all of the lessons
we would have in Young Women’s about the importance of our virtue and keeping
ourselves worthy to enter the temple, and clean from any sexual sin. As I came
to understand the importance of keeping myself pure and free of that sin, I
started to think of intimacy in a different, more important light. Though I
feel as if I did not fully understand the sacredness and true nature of marital
intimacy, I began to realize that it was something important enough in the eyes
of God to keep the rules on.
After I got married, I realized the marital
intimacy is so much more than just the worlds view of it (feeding the “physical
appetite”, giving into temptation, exploring sexuality, etc.). Being intimate
with that special person that you have chosen to spend eternity with is showing
that person the essence of your unwavering and true love for them. Not only
that is marital intimacy important in that aspect of marriage, but it also has
great importance in the role that we have been asked to fill the just like the
one Adam and Eve were asked to fill – multiply and replenish the earth. My
husband and I are currently pregnant with our first child and are just starting
to experience that incredible blessing of parenthood. Marital intimacy is truly
something of upmost importance and is perhaps one of the most special things
that we have been blessed with on this earth. Note, however, that “marital” has
to preface that word intimacy in order for those blessings to be given to
us. In the words of the apostle Jeffrey
R. Holland:
“…human intimacy is reserved for a married couple because it
is the ultimate symbol of total union, a totality and a union ordained and
defined by God.”
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