13/08/2021

The passage from Joshua emphasises  the role God plays in our life on earth. The Israelites are told that there is nothing in the land given to them by God that is not the work of people other than themselves. It is the same for all of us.We enter life with absolutely nothing. God's Providence places some of us in dire poverty and closeness to death whereas others never experience material want. We are not instantly aware of this but as our consciousness grows so does our awareness of ourselves and others. Envy is part of my being. It has grown along with me throughout my life and even though I am more than content with my life every now and then I experience a twinge of envy when I hear of good that happens to others.

Jesus is talking about the sexual relationships that is God's chosen way of continuing the human race. We are animals created with all that that entails. We need food and water and clothing and shelter. We are beyond animals in that we have souls that know their need to understand what it means to have existence. God has revealed himself to our souls and part of the revelation is about sexual relations. Male Female that's your lot. Anything else is just "impure" wishful thinking.

There are also people born without sexual drive. Jesus characterizes these as eunuchs from birth, eunuchs by castration, eunuchs by choice. There is nothing about same sex relations. We cannot take it upon ourselves to create a new order of being where all that has been condemned by God is legitimized, even if by the Mother of Parliaments.

Dear Lord let me sincerely follow your teaching in all things hold not my complaints about the confusion caused by sexuality against me  and let the lust of my body be always subject to the urgings of my soul.