The love that is expressed better in words such as these " I had loved before but I knew not why. But now I loved -with a pureness- an intensity of elevated, exalted feeling, which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this groveling sphere and expand it as an ocean. I could now love with the spirit and with understanding also....spirit communes with spirit, thought meets with thought, soul blends with soul, in all the raptures of pure, mutual and eternal love" (Parley Pratt as qtd by Madsen pg 20)
             These words lift me up with longing and inspire me to search for that kind of love. These are the sounds seldom heard that are heard by many. They do not come from the media, from magazines or movies. They do not come from this "groveling sphere". This is a sphere of "free love", where the act of love is cheapened and made ordinary by the media as the lies bleed like a hemorrhage into the social consciousness.
             They are two totally opposing forces, and the gap between is blatant. This sphere is a place where love is confused and involves all permutations and combinations of men, women and even children instead of the God ordained Act of Love between husband and wife. Where the goal is just sexual union instead of soulful union, erotic rather than eternal. It is a world in which lustful desires are stirred but never satisfied as compared with a marital intimacy that can bring loving desires that fulfill. Where the body is a plaything instead of the great prize of mortal life. Where sex is just participated in by separate individuals rather than a uniting intimacy partaken of and built on. In this world sex is seen, joked about and discussed everywhere, but in the bonds of ma
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