Finding One's Way through the Forest

Roxeanne de Luca is a gem of a gal. Prone to perusing Dear Abbey and offering her own common sense commentary, her recent post on The Sad Thing About Waxing drew a flurry of back and forth between Bobby B, Joy McCann and one Robert Stacy McCain, with the bulk of the discussion directed to the debasement of our culture.

All this to direct your attention to Roxeanne's answer in Belvedere's comment section:

"In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis said that Satan’s goal is to take normal, healthy pleasures and pervert them, so that we need ever more for ever less enjoyment in return. When you decouple sex from love, you end up working incredibly hard to replace the love component with physical pleasure and excitement, which must necessarily result in ever-increasing disordered activity. “Normal” sex becomes boring, not because it is so, but because it is so without love, without the underlying connection that constantly strengthens as the couple goes through married life."

Yes, yes indeed. Beautifully said.

What's up with that?

A recent donnybrook that managed to get all the way over onto a post at The Other McCain had Roxeanna de Luca pointing out how other people's poor choices end up having negative repercussions upon her life. And while the discussion itself was good, I found her answer to commentor Matt to be golden:

"While I still cringe (a lot…) at some of those memories, there is also a deep sense of contentment and joy in having lived my life a certain way. That joy is there, even though I’m over 30 and single. (No, the TV shows, movies, books, and chastity speakers who tell you that you will be rewarded for your patience with a super-awesome husband are not telling the truth; you may get that “reward”, you may not, but there is a different type of reward that you simply can’t imagine at age 16 or 20 or even 25.)

Bringing this back to whence the conversation came: what irks me to no end is that we, as a culture, don’t even begin to show young people how to live that life."

Very true. Wouldn't you want someone with that kind of grounding to be a person of influence for your own girls? For me, no question about it.