Love-making follow-up...

So, what happens when you or your spouse doesn't want to?  Alma says to us in verse 27 of the thirty-second chapter that, "even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until..."  and if one or neither of you can even desire to believe, then nothing that I can say will most likely help you out, I think.

However, if, through rational and logical and maybe scriptural and even historical talk... you find that you can desire, then let that desire work in you, as Alma says, and here we will equate that desire with what Alma calls a "seed":

"... as the seed swelleth, and sprouteth, and beginneth to grow, then you must needs say that the seed is good; for behold it swelleth, and sprouteth, and beginneth to grow. And now, behold, will not this strengthen your faith? Yea, it will strengthen your faith: for ye will say I know that this is a good seed; for behold it sprouteth and beginneth to grow.  And now, behold, are ye sure that this is a good seed? I say unto you, Yea; for every seed bringeth forth unto its own likeness.  Therefore, if a seed groweth it is good, but if it groweth not, behold it is not good, therefore it is cast away.  And now, behold, because ye have tried the experiment, and planted the seed, and it swelleth and sprouteth, and beginneth to grow, ye must needs know that the seed is good."

Now, you've seen that your desire has "born fruit," or that your seed is growing, you will get some help, as, "every seed bringeth forth unto its own likeness."

With both of you now planting and growing and making fruit-bearing-seeds, you know that those seed "is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten myunderstanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me."

And there you have it...  An informal lecture of love-making intertwined with a formal lecture from my favorite Book of Mormon prophet, Alma.

JPS