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Recent Song of Songs Posts Below

May 07 2014

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

  • 05/07/2014

Picture if a secret garden in the woods

Look at you! How beautiful you are, my beloved, and how charming! Our bed is green! Song 1:16
I find it intriguing that when the Shulamite woman is in the garden returning the gaze of her beloved that she at first sees his beauty, and then immediately a bed. She obviously saw what he is thinking! :-) But this is no ordinary bed. The first thing she notices is that it is green.

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Apr 12 2014

G.I. Jane and the Bridal Paradigm

  • 04/12/2014

“The biggest symbols make the biggest targets.”

Explaining movie plots is so not my skill, but I just watched one called “G.I. Jane” that was inspiring to me, and I’d like to try to share something I saw in it pertaining to the Bride of Christ.  Along with some other encouragement from the Lord and others, it has energized me to wade back into …

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Mar 27 2014

Pausing for Reflection

  • 03/27/2014

It’s been awhile since the last post – longer than usual anyways – and I can’t say I know why exactly.  So I’m just resting and waiting.  What is coming ahead feels very heavy.  I recently had a brief vision of a staircase with 4 steps, and sense this was significant.  Taking a new step requires new effort, especially when …

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Mar 09 2014

The Fellowship of Dove Eyes (Song 1:15)

  • 03/09/2014

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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