Intimacy

"but basically when sex is done right, at its deepest level it is about intimacy. It is about one human being connecting with another human being they love. It is a beautiful physical manifestation of two people being connected in a truly vulnerable, intimate manner because they love each other profoundly. It is bodies connecting and souls connecting. It is beautiful and rich and fulfilling and spiritual and amazing. Many people never get to this point in their sex lives because it requires incredible communication, trust, vulnerability, and connection."

I found this on another blog and since this is something that is lacking in my life I just needed to be reminded of what I'm striving for.

On Sex

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a single, undeviating standard of sexual morality: intimate relations are proper only between a man and a woman in the marriage relationship prescribed in God’s plan. Such relations are not merely a curiosity to be explored, an appetite to be satisfied, or a type of recreation or entertainment to be pursued selfishly. They are not a conquest to be achieved or simply an act to be performed. Rather, they are in mortality one of the ultimate expressions of our divine nature and potential and a way of strengthening emotional and spiritual bonds between husband and wife. We are agents blessed with moral agency and are defined by our divine heritage as children of God—and not by sexual behaviors, contemporary attitudes, or secular philosophies.
--David A. Bednar,  We Believe in Being Chaste (Ensign, May 2013)

Songs

If you pay attention to the words of a girl's favorite songs, you'll find out everything she's too afraid to say.

I AM the Chess Board

My therapist once told me that I am the chess board and the things that have happened in my life are just like the chess pieces, they just move across the board. I have tried to remember this and remember that things happen they land on my board and then move on.