As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you. (Is 62:5)
A friend of mine had this as her Facebook status today:
“If the human body is really God’s image in the visible world, then the deep and powerful attraction we feel to the body is the image of an even deeper desire for God. Because that desire is an ache of the soul and not of the body, we may not perceive it as readily. But the very purpose of our existence is communion with another Person, body and soul. This is why our sexual craving is so strong and persistent – when we feel it, we are feeling our soul. And because the depth of the soul’s longing is infinite, it cannot be satisfied fully by any finite person.”
She tells me she had to memorize it in her senior religion class and attributes it to her teacher, Fr. James Shea.
The image above is Bernini’s St. Theresa in Ecstasy
P.S. the friend I spoke of above has a blog dedicated to Christian modesty.