This was a post on a religious related blog I look at from time to time. It just so happens that I was having a conversation with a colleague very recently that incorporated all this and more. Intimacy on every level is an important concern for married couples. I thought that what this post revealed was a good book for couples to look into reading and if nothing more to have a conversation about the struggle and it defeats and victories in marriage. This is one, primary/major, place that Satan swiftly with shredding results cuts marriages up. Expectations can be communicated and resolved, this has longer and deeper wounds than many men and women know or give credit. The opening paragraph truly speaks volumes to the roaring lion seeking those to destroy. And when I say destroy, this morning it has a very new and different ring in my ears. After so many conversations and such long anguish myself with the difficulties of the christian life being destroyed never seemed actually believable. Only since working with addicts who are believers, watching them struggle, fail, start over, succeed, fail, try harder, start again, die, survive and live exhausted lives consumed by addiction does being alive and being destroyed begin to make any sense to me at all.
This is the struggle of our entire existence. Intimacy. It will be robbed, or attempted to be in so many ways over and over again. There is no effort to great, no length to far to try, as husbands and wives, to protect the intimacy of Christ in our marriages.
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