so sunday my youth group started a challenge where we will be fasting all things related to what churchy people would call "inappropriate love" including flirting and objectifying even in movies and songs i would have to say that this is not so difficult for me except for two things 1 when im with my guy friends and we see these girls that God or a well paid surgen did a good job on and we cant help but be attracted and make comments and 2 that there are some attractive females that interest me and i feel i cant show interest and therefore will miss out on a chance on a relationship with a beautiful woman, but then a friend of my asked me why do we feel we cant survive without this physical "ahavah" and /or "dode" loves which mean romantic and/or sexuall love and i was totally stumped. so why do we feel we cant but i guess the problem is not so much that we are sick and twisted in God's view of what love is but that we are programmed by him to be attracted to the opposite sex and that we just don't know how to handle these feelings that God has given to us so this challenge i feel isnt so much trying to be totally and utterly asexual but that we need to learn how to love as God would want us to.
-J
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