10 Minute Daily Retreat: Beloved 'your love is better than wine,'
Beloved: 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine, 3 your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you. 4 Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers... 7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; Song of Songs SS 1:2-4,7 I tapped impatiently on the steering wheel, waiting for the church car park to clear. It had been a long, hot Service and I felt totally washed out. The sermon had urged us to seek an experience of spiritual renewal. There was nothing fresh about my spirit. Physically tired from long shifts, mentally drained from study and emotionally wrecked from house sharing, there was little room for spiritual growth. In my naivety I didn’t recognize this very place as God's watering hole. My voiceless surrender that my search for Him was way too hard