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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

Incarnate skin hunger.

“My friend, Adele, was one of my friends from seminary; and we kept in touch over the last 30 years.  

When we all had young children, one of the things she pointed out was a very subtle but important change she found — and when she said this, I understood it immediately — that her “skin hunger” was being met with the baby and not with her husband.  

That means that the need to hug, to touch, to cuddle is a big motivator for sex; but the woman who is tending to have more bodily contact with a child by holding it, and bathing it, and feeding it, etc., is full up as far as touch needs — and her husband is full down empty and still is very interested in sexual or in any kind of touching with his wife.  

Whereas, the wife is, “been there, had that; I’m full” with the baby.” Kathy Keller, Family Life Today - Making a Marriage Work, January 18, 2012

…why the Word became flesh and lived among us.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to incarnate skin hunger.