Desire Not A Dirty Word

Come to Me

 DESIRE THE STRONGEST HUMAN EMOTION

Even the feelings of love and hate struggle against the seduction of desire. You can “feel” love for one and desire another just as you can feel hate for one you desire. If you have thought it, you know it. If not yet, you will. A true sign is when the heart races and the pulse quickens with just the thought of the object of your desire. And when the body is triggered in the presence of “the one,” feelings swell and pulsate to the rhythm playing in your mind. And at that moment, no one knows but you.

The great taboo is no taboo at all

We did not make it the way that it is. It made us the way that we are—it is in us. The great taboo is no taboo at all. The Creator created us—when stimulated—to have strong feelings and to be desirous of each other. The hands of nature hold the switch. You can turn your back on desire. However, each time, it will turn you back around. It is not a sin. It would not be as strong if it were wrong. We cannot erase it. However, you must maintain control of your feelings and how you think about them.

There should never be a time when you do not. Control of feelings (self-awareness) and self-control are not the same. There are few to no times when self-control is preferable to self-awareness, which does not need to be controlled.

Of course, as with all things in life, there is a time and place if it is to be a time and place. You do not have to act on desire, but pretending will not change how you feel. There is no human power or words that can change this. So let no one tell you that you should not feel what you do, for they also desire. It matters not the role or title that they hold. Do not confuse temptation with desire: They are not the same.

TEMPTATION IS NOT DESIRE

Pain and Pleasure

We will be tempted to do things we know are wrong by moral standards but feel right by our own. Do you yield to temptation or deny yourself the pleasure of being who you are. The Creator put pain and pleasure of life here for us to decide. Some believe there should be no pleasure or there should be some type of on-and-off switch. No such control was included when we were created, for pain and pleasure are part of who we are. And pleasure is what we seek because it feels better than pain. That is why it is so difficult, and not natural, not to yield to certain temptations.

The Creator chose desire to ensure that his creation’s life would continue to be. It could not happen with pain. Pain’s purpose is to tell us that not all is well. We are animals, yes, you heard what I said, and we are human. When we deny ourselves the pleasures of life, all that is left is pain. Now I ask you, will you yield to temptation?