| Jesus, I Love You ! Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! [she cries. Then, realizing that the King has arrived and has heard her speech, she turns to him and adds] For your love is better than wine! [And she continues] The odor of your ointments is fragrant; your name is like perfume poured out. Therefore do the maidens love you. Draw me! We will run after you! The king brings me into his apartments! We will be glad and rejoice in you! We will recall [when we were favored with] your love, more fragrant than wine. The upright [are not offended at your choice, but sincerely] love you. I am so black; but [you are] lovely and pleasant [the ladies assured her]. O you daughters of Jerusalem, [I am as dark] as the tents of [the Bedouin tribe] Kedar, like the [beautiful] curtains of Solomon! [Please] do not look at me, [she said, for] I am swarthy. [I have worked out] in the sun and it has left its mark upon me. My stepbrothers were angry with me, and they made me keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard [my complexion] I have not kept. [Addressing her shepherd, she said] Tell me, O [1] you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon. For why should I [as I think of you] be as a veiled one straying beside the flocks of your companions? (Taken From The Amplified version of the Bible, out of the Book of Song of Solomon, Chapter 1, verses 2-7) -When you're in Love with The Great Shepard, The Lover of your soul, this is how you feel -You feel like a star crossed lover! Remember, Jesus is your Lover Spiritually, not physically. I must stress this, or else some people would entertain weird Ideas about these statements! |