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July 1 - Song of Solomon 2 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. And it's Yvonne, too.
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  And it is the first day of a new month.
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  It's the 1st of July and boy, we are in the twilight zone here.
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  After five years of me disappearing into a room by
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  myself to record, here you are recording with me.
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  Yeah, it's a little bit overwhelming, but I'm trying my
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  best. You are killing it, honey.
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  You're doing great. And today is another great day
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  for this because well, after everyone heard your reading
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  yesterday, they're going to be delighted to know that there's a
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  whole lot more young woman than there is young man today.
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  So how about let's dive into it and let's keep reading this poem
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  together. You good?
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  You ready? All right, let's.
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  Go all right, join us friends as we read together Song of Songs
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  Chapter 2. I am the spring crocus blooming
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  on the Sharon Plain, the Lily of the valley.
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  Like a Lily among thistles is my darling among young women.
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  Like the finest apple tree in the orchard is my lover among
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  other young men. I sit in his delightful shade
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  and taste his delicious fruit. He escorts me to the banquet
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  hall. It's obvious how much he loves
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  me. Strengthen me with Raisin cakes,
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  refresh me with apples, for I am weak with love.
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  His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
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  Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and
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  wild deer, not to awaken love until the time is right.
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  Ah, I hear my lover coming. He is leaping over the
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  mountains, bounding over the hills.
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  My lover is like a swift gazelle or a young stag.
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  Look, there he is behind the wall, looking through the
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  window, peering into the room. My lover said to me, Rise up, my
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  darling, Come away with me, my fair one.
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  Look, the winter is past and the rains are over and gone.
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  The flowers are springing up. The season of singing birds has
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  come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.
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  The fig trees are forming young fruit, and the fragrant
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  grapevines are blossoming. Rise up, my darling, Come away
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  with me, my fair one. My dove is hiding behind the
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  rocks, behind an outcrop on the Cliff.
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  Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice, for your
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  voice is pleasant and your face is lovely.
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  Catch all the foxes, those little foxes, before they ruin
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  the vineyard of love, for the grapevines are blossoming.
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  My lover is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies
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  before the dawn breezes blow and the night shadows flee.
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  Return to me, my love, like a gazelle or a young stag on the
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  rugged mountains. Our Lord, thank you that you
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  haven't made us for a lone life, but you have made us for
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  community. You have made us for
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  relationship, that perfect relationship with you, but we
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  bask in your love and your acceptance that we don't quite
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  understand but we're very grateful for nonetheless.
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  But also for relationship with each other.
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  But thank you for the special ones in our lives whose love
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  boisters us each day and that inspires us to keep going.
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  Lord, I pray that we are able to invest in those relationships
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  and that that we can mirror you and your love and your
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  forgiveness when it's needed. And your grace, our Lord, you
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  are good to us and you model this perfect love for us.
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  So we thank you for it, we acknowledge it, and we live in
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  it day by day because boy do we need it along with your
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  forgiveness. And we pray all of this in Jesus
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  name, Amen.