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%SEXUAL PRAYERS 780623
In prayer we affirm our deepest needs and desires ---
doing so in a presence which provides a profound context
for gaining perspectives upon those needs and desires.
Through prayer we seek to grow while in touch with our
deepest and most real feelings, desires, and needs---with
the hope that they may be affirmed in ways which will
fulfill us while in meaningful relationships with others.
Through prayer we seek to transcend selfishness, while
affirming our deepest self in loving relationships. Prayer
promotes union: between our deepest needs and desires on
the one hand, and profound perspectives upon those needs
and desires on the other hand; between our own and
others' needs. Prayer is a way to promote union in love
between different people, by placing personal
relationships in profound contexts for gaining
perspectives upon personal needs and desires.
Our deepest needs and desires include our needs and
desires for affirmations of our bodies and our sexual
yearnings; for affectionate and erotic relationships. We
need a transcendent presence which will provide for us a
profound context for gaining wise perspectives upon these
needs and desires. That presence is not found within
subcultures, institutions, and communities that disaffirm
affectionate, sexual, and erotic relationships---through
indifference, neglect, suppression, embarrassment,
repression, depression, delusion, elusion, collusion,
ignorance, perversion, exclusivity, excommunication,
taboo, legalism, moralism, etc. Sexual prayers are not
familiar to people who are the victims of such
subcultures, institutions, and communities. The
affirmation of human bodies, sexuality, and erotic desires
through prayer is unthinkable and unimaginable in such a
context, and so profound perspectives are blocked. People
are unable to be in touch with their most real feelings,
desires, and needs---and cannot relate them to the
development of meaningful relationships with others in
love. They are unable to pray in ways which affirm
themselves as creatures with sexual bodies having erotic
needs which transcend selfishness.
Our deepest prayers are occasioned by our deepest
needs, desires, and feelings. If we do not pray when we
experience our deepest needs, desires, and feelings---then
we are unlikely to pray on other occasions. Without
prayer we act without profound perspectives --- often
violently.
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