Sexuality In the Service of God

On Saturday, October 29, 1864, Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist Sojourner Truth and US President Abraham Lincoln met. Toward the end of their meeting, Truth asked Lincoln to sign her Book of Life, which was a combination scrapbook and autograph book. Truth used her Book of Life to enclose personal letters and newspaper clippings and to collect signatures of people she admired and respected.  

Truth and Lincoln were not lovers; they were friends. Everyone didn't make it into her Book of Life. Truth also met with President Andrew Johnson, but she did not ask him to sign her Book of Life.

God has the names of creyentes (believers) written in His Book of Life. Creyentes can make their own books of life like Sojourner Truth's Book of Life. Married creyentes can even turn their books of life into Chinese pillow books. Chinese pillow books are small, sex-instruction manuals, each on a specific topic with illustrations. You can include erotic poems written by you or someone else, pressed flowers, cards, mementos, clippings from magazines and/or books with your notes, prose of your own on special paper and whatever you and your spouse enjoy. Books can be titled Touch Me Like This, Play Time, Hot Dates, Beautiful Butts, Fellatio, Cunnilingus, Intercourse Positions, S & M Alternatives or something in a code known only to each other. What are the titles of your Chinese pillow books?

Sex is an integral part of a marriage relationship. Sex is good. Sex is created by God. Sometimes people abuse or fail to appreciate God's creative work. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Amplified Bible says, "But test and prove all things [until you can recognize] what is good; [to that] hold fast."

Un dicho (a proverb) says, "Pueblo dividido, pueblo vencido." ("A people divided, a people conquered.") Chinese pillow books and books of life can build relationships by helping people to appreciate and to understand each other and to seek unity. We all do not think alike and may be surprised to learn certain things about our spouses and friends.

Some people are afraid of and try to suppress open communication. Iranian authorities put Pastor and U.S. Citizen Saeed Abedini under house arrest in July 2012 separating him from his wife, Naghmeh Abedini, and their two children because Pastor Abedini was setting up an orphanage and Christian house churches in Iran. In September 2012 they arrested him. In January 2013 Iranian authorities sentenced him to an eight-year prison sentence for threatening Iran's national security. The US State Department, US Secretary of State John Kerry and the European Union have all called for Pastor Saeed Abedini's release, and over 574,000 people worldwide from over 180 countries have signed a petition lending him support. A campaign to write letters to him for his May 7th birthday and to sign the petition is being coordinated at http://www.savesaeed.org.

Cherish the God-given ability to communicate. Please call Governor Mary Fallin at (405-521-2342) to ask her to sign into law HB 1403 The Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act of Oklahoma which protects the elderly, seriously ill and disabled by preventing medical providers from denying individuals life-saving treatment based on their quality of life.

"I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions," says a character in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The most important relationship to have is a relationship with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost (1 X 1 X 1 = 1). Matthew 22:36-40 English Standard Version Bible says, "“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”"

China is not treating neighbors well. "I escaped so I could tell the world about the situation in China," Chen Guangcheng said in an April 24, 2013, article by Dai Ying for Deutsch Welle.  

Guangcheng is from China. He is the husband of Yuan Weijing and the father of a girl and a boy. He became internationally known for filing a 2005 law suit against a local government for forced abortions and forced sterilizations practiced as part of China’s one-child policy.

Guangcheng's lawsuit was rejected, and he was placed under house arrest in Shandong, China, with guards surrounding his house, his cell phone service cut off, access to the Internet blocked and bright lights shinning on his house at night. His wife and daughter were living with him under house arrest. This family was prevented from meeting their wider family, including Chen Guangcheng's and Yuan Weijing's son, who lived elsewhere with an aunt.

Tejas is the name the Spanish gave to the area that became the US state of Texas. The Spanish chose the name based on a Native American word for "friend."

Guangcheng, who became blind as a result of a childhood illness and now wears dark sunglasses, had friends help him to escape from house arrest in April 2012. He Peirong is a key member of a group of activists who organize support for Guangcheng in China. He Peirong drove Guangcheng to the US embassy in Beijing. Were they traveling in a Corolla, the best-selling car of all time produced by the Japanese company Toyota?

A deal was worked out between China and the United States; now Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer who also helped the disabled win public benefits and aided farmers fighting illegal land seizures, lives in New York with his wife, Yuan Weijing, and their two children.

On April 9, 2013, he testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee On Foreign Affairs about his family's and other people's persecution in China and other ongoing human rights abuses in China. Guangcheng gave Congress a list of 130,000 Chinese officials involved in forced abortions and forced sterilizations.

Guangcheng's nephew, Chen Kegui, has been in jail after using knives to fend off local officials who burst into Kegui's home after Guangcheng's escape. Kegui is married to Liu Fang. The couple have a young son, Chen Fubin.

"He (Chen Kegui) must be heavily injured, I'm worried about his physical state," Liu Fang said to Reuters reporter Sui-Lee Wee for her May 24, 2012, article "Brother of blind China activist flees village." Liu Fang also said about her husband and Guangcheng's nephew, "Inside, he might be subject to beatings."

Torture and other reprisals by Chinese authorities are happening to family and friends of Guangcheng since his escape from China to the US one year ago.

On April 24, 2013, Chen Kegui's mother, Ren Zongju, and Chen Kegui's uncle, Chen Guangjun, were told by Chinese authorities to answer questions about whether they “harbored a criminal” by helping Chen Kegui before his capture. Chen Guangjun is a bother of Chen Guangcheng

Chen Guangfu, another brother of Chen Guangcheng, told Chris Buckley of The New York Times for his April 24, 2013, article, "Chinese Officials Order Questioning of Exiled Activist’s Relatives, “I think that this is really about Guangcheng;” “I’ve heard that he spoke at the U.S. Congress and leveled accusations against officials. In my view, that infuriated them.”

Creyentes are called to infuriate the enemy of good relationships. We are all sexual beings, but all are not using sexuality in the service of God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost. 1 John 3:7-8 the Message Bible says, "So, my dear children, don’t let anyone divert you from the truth. It’s the person who acts right who is right, just as we see it lived out in our righteous Messiah. Those who make a practice of sin are straight from the Devil, the pioneer in the practice of sin. The Son of God entered the scene to abolish the Devil’s ways."

Write a letter about forced abortions and forced sterilizations practiced as part of China's one-child policy and human rights abuses of Chen Guangcheng's family and friends to:
Secretary of State John Kerry
US Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520