Today, I was reading scripture aloud to the little girl I babysit. I jokingly said, "Let's see if God has anything to say to me about my future husband in Song of Songs." I flipped to the chapter and this is the first thing I read....
The Bride's Dream
I sought him whom my soul loves;
I sought him, but found him not.
I will rise now and go about the city,
in the streets and in the squares;
I will seek him whom my soul loves.
I sought him, but found him not.
as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
That last line made me laugh. It reminded me of a quote from Mansfield Park that has been running through my head the last few days....
"I only entreat every body to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier, Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and become anxious to marry Fanny,as Fanny herself could desire.”
So, I wait.
