Category: intimacy and oneness

“Lingering and Savoring”…and a Gift of Free Food (Song 2:3)

Remember, it’s all free,” she said, taking my arm as we walked into the grocery store. I needed a little encouragement, for how often does one get a shopping pass to buy anything in a store without regard to cost? This happened recently when a friend was given a huge grocery card, and wanted to share it with me. 

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The Bed of Heaven (Song 1:16-17)

Picture of a green bed of plants

When I was a little girl I had a hobby horse, and remember spending countless hours riding and grooming it. Later in life when riding a real horse for the first time, a strong déjà vu feeling of my pretend horse came flooding back. It’s hard to describe, but sitting on the back of the reality, I felt like I had been there before, and it brought an exhilarating, childlike joy to my ride. 

All this came to mind on a certain trip, in which I could not escape an adventurous sense that its moments were once played out in the history of the Bible somewhere. What exactly I did not know, but it felt as if something from the past was merging with the present, forming a new and higher reality.

Hopefully I haven’t lost anyone. It’s actually an experience that, for me, helped unlock something in this next portion of the Song…

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The Fellowship of Dove Eyes – Song 1:15

Doves Male and Female with nest of babies

Blossoms are appearing! The season of songbirds has come, and the cooing of doves is being heard in the land.  Song 2:12

My family used to raise doves, and sell the babies to pet stores. It was fairly easy, since they mated for life. And mated a lot! In fact, that is one of the unique things above doves. When our doves weren’t eating or sleeping, they were preening and loving on each other. The male constantly did a courtship dance, too.  “Coo-Coo-Wah,” (with head bow) and he’d repeat it over and over until his female was finally receptive to him…

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An Odoriferous Intro to Song 1:12-14

Pic of girl smelling a flower

A sweet thing happened when the Shulamite followed the King’s instructions. And an unexpected thing, when she went on that brave journey to find him. What else, but that she got gushed over! And adorned with thoughtful gifts!

But that’s just like Jesus, is it not, from your experience? He sees all the brave little …

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Just To Make a Clearer Distinction (1:4 Con’t)

A abstract door to one's inner heart chamber

The last post about “being brought into His chamber” was heavy, I know, and long. I don’t make any apologies for it, as everything isn’t for everybody, and it helped bring things together for me, in my Spirit. I’m not always able to make things easy for other people to understand. Call it a writing style, or whatnot, but sometimes after the fact I hear someone else put it into less, more succinct words, and I’m like, “Ahhh, perfect! So much simpler!” :-)

Like the following, which I give credit to another author for writing. Forgiving some of the religious language whose overuse has become problematic in my opinion, I think you’ll get the overall gist.

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A Word To The “Who Remnant” – Song 1:1

The Song Returns Us To The Who Of Our Spiritual Beginnings

What is YOUR experience with the Song of Songs?

I believe anyone starting off on a journey of faith knows, deep down, that the “Song” is uniquely special and useful for their spiritual life. But unfortunately most don’t have the tools to properly understand it. When I was a young girl, I remember reading the Song in secret, and how it ignited desires in me for what was spiritually possible in my love-relationship with Christ. But being raised in a strict religious environment, I didn’t have a mature place to talk about the details of sex, let alone a book like the Song of Songs. So it was largely something that I “put on a back burner,” while meanwhile pursuing a more intellectual and dispassionate approach to studying the Bible.

That is, until…

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The Fellowship of Dove Eyes (Song 1:15)

Doves Male and Female with nest of babies

Blossoms are appearing! The season of songbirds has come, and the cooing of doves is being heard in the land.  Song 2:12

My family used to raise doves.  Just a pair of them, in a cage.  A special trait about them is their loyalty for life, and their focus. When our doves weren’t eating or …

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Mingled Odors & Shared Anointing (Song 1:3)

On multiple levels it is something that is inevitable, that closeness with another brings a mingling of odors. What does this mean in our relationship to Jesus Christ? It means that His anointing becomes ours. And this is exactly where things become heated….

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