more while reading "Strangers"

As I mentioned in a previous post, I am reading "Strangers in a Strange Land," by Charles Chaput.  In Chapter 5, Love Among the Eloi, he writes:

Contraceptive intimacy, in contrast, is finally not "intimacy" at all.  It makes every sexual contact a disconnected point in time and an event without a future -- two people using each other as instruments for their own relief.

This strikes me as being extremely similar to a song from 1976 by Bob Seger:  Night Moves.

The lyrics include:

                 I used her, she used me 
                 and neither one cared,
                 we were getting our share 
                 practicing our night moves.

A song that encapsulates a generation's sad attempt at living in this immoral age.

We are called to so much more than "working on our night moves."  We are called to the fullness of joy.  Not a night of passion, a weekend tryst, a short lived coupling of cohabitation.  

No, we are called to an eternity of intimacy with the source of our existence.  A union we do not deserve, and without which we will remain utterly unhappy, and unsatisfied.

If we seek our fulfillment in this world we cannot be satisfied, because God has made us for himself, as St. Augustine tells us.

Let us not work on our "night moves," but on our relationship with the One who loves us more than we love ourselves.

Marana Tha.  Oh Lord, come!