I bless this sacred union

“I bless this sacred union knowing it is pure love. I am eternally grateful”

This is an affirmation to be said by a couple prior to having sex. It occurred to me that just as how we bless the food we are about to take into our bodies, a most intimate act, perhaps we ought to bless the physical union of two bodies – the taking in and merging of two beings. Literally, we “exchange bodily fluids”, but we also meld our beings – should we not do so in an atmosphere and intention of love, sacredness and the divine?

For a moment, let’s consider: how many unions would we not have participated in if we had said this? How many unions would we have recognized were NOT pure love? How many unions would we have realized there was no way we would be grateful for, except perhaps in the fleeting moment?

A union of pure love is one of merging in the moment with one’s beloved, with the only intention being to express love – no manipulation, no withholding, no control, no conditions, no games – just love. Just being love in the moment: seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling, tasting, BEING only love. Seeing the other person as love. Seeing the aura of love around the other person, and ultimately around the two that have literally merged into one aura of love – expressing the physical manifestation of onelove.

Being grateful for the union even before it has happened in the physical realm sets an intention for good to manifest. It sets an intention that whatever happens is good – now and for all time. “Eternally grateful” means that we are grateful in that moment. We will never look back on that moment of union as anything but love. We will always see it as something for which we are grateful.

Loving in this way, having sex in this way, becomes like a meditation. It becomes an opportunity to tune into our higher selves, our higher oneness. It becomes an opportunity to demonstrate that we are all ONE, that we are ONE with our beloved, that we are one with our Beloved. It demonstrates that our physical union is a gateway to our eternal unity, our eternal oneness.

I am eternally grateful.