So I hope the prudish reader will remember that God invented sex, speaks about it lustily in the Bible, and in fact needs sexual feelings, and the words connected with them, to clarify heaven's model of what God's love is about. Every experience whether in fact or fantasy, of good sex or bad sex, an idyllic situation or tragedy, compassion or brutality, makes us choose our direction. We choose by joy or by revulsion. Either we are drawn to greater loving and community and light, or we draw back into manipulation, self centredness, and outer darkness. In due course our explanatory models will reflect that, unless we manage to live by one standard and hypocritically judge by another.
Most people feel their way painfully into loving by their life experiences.
But a safer way to set our direction is by encountering the life and teachings of the Son of God. I would like every parable and story in this book to point directly, tangentially, or by revulsion, to that Light.