Holy Order - Holy Marriage

Do you make love like a man? Does it really matter how we make love, like spiritually? Does God care how we navigate this part of our relationship? I’m not talking about abuse and disrespectful behaviours, it is a given that that does not please God. I’m talking about how we generally do it. Our habits.  I expect that a lot of women make love like a man. And I think that this actually matters a lot. If God is male and female bound inseparablely together as One, then they are the masculine-feminine parts of one whole come together. Sex is the culmination of our ability to be One with our spouse in a mortal body. How we do it matters.  Masculine arousal and feminine arousal are drastically different from each other and for good reason. They are complementary and together create a richer and more profound and Godly experience.  God commands a man to leave his mother and father and cleave unto his wife and become one flesh with her.  Having sex, does not make you One or ...

Women are the gatekeepers of life, which necessarily includes death. The feminine is the gatekeeper of life. She is the entry portal into this world and across all cultures and time it is women who traditionally sit with those who are leaving this world. A sweet girlfriend of mine recently experienced a miscarriage. This role of the feminine is crystalized in its tragic beauty in a miscarriage, when her womb becomes a tomb. There is something very sacred about going through a miscarriage or the loss of a babe soon after its birth. In no other experience is a woman closer to her Heavenly Mother as she is the guardian of life and death within the portal of her own body. There is an old Celtic belief that the Mother is in the north, midwife to those who pass through the borders of the circle from life to death, from death to life.  It is a tragically beautiful concept.  It harkens to Mary Magdalene as she sat watch over her love as He left this world and then was brought back int...