Trading Your Birthright

Tonight I went to Stake Conference.  One of the speakers talked about "trading your birthright for a mess pottage."  he asked us what we thought that meant, and some of the responses given were about how our nature is divine, how we are heir to the Eternal Kingdom, yet sometimes we inadvertently exchange that great inheritance for something of much less value.  This train of thought caused me to ponder the subject of marital intimacy, which we have been studying and discussing this week.  My thoughts are this: sometimes, I feel that we either overlook the sacred potential of intimate marital relations, do not correctly understand or value them, and at times we even crowd intimacy out of our lives, filling our time with things of much less value.