Philip Sheldrake says, “Desires are best understood as our most honest experiences of ourselves, in all our complexity and depth, as we relate to people and things around us…In particular, we need to rescue ‘desire’ from attempts to reduce its meaning to sexual libido and its increasingly murky associations with sexual abuse or sexual power games…When we choose to talk of befriending desires rather than simply responding to needs, we are implying that desires involve a positi