Day 17 – Relationship

Ducks (JH)

 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!

For your love is better than wine,

your anointing oils are fragrant,

your name is perfume poured out…

Draw me after you, let us make haste.

If you do not know,

O fairest among women…

Ah, you are beautiful, my love;

ah, you are beautiful;

your eyes are doves. 

(Song of Songs 1: 2-4, 8, 15)

 

This is a strange poem to find in the Bible. It contains no direct references to God, prayer or any religious activity. Yet some instinct tells us that this song is central to all we seek – and so it is for it celebrates everything that humanity most yearns for. Here is creation restored from its ancient threefold rupture – the separation of humans from each other, the separation between humans and the natural world, and the separation of humans from God. The song is a celebration of homecoming from exile to the original garden of God’s good creating.

(Extract from Dust & Glory by David Runcorn)

 Prayer

Lord, whether I am joyful or fearful, whole or wounded, thank you for being at the heart and healing of my most intimate loving.

Remember Today

Those we love; those whose relationships are nourishing and those whose relationships are fractured; those separated from loved ones because of Covid-19.