{"id":2027,"date":"2007-04-03T02:10:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T02:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/04\/love-in-the-key-of-delight-2.html"},"modified":"2007-04-03T02:10:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T02:10:29","slug":"love-in-the-key-of-delight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/04\/love-in-the-key-of-delight-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Love in the Key of Delight 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Song of Songs 1:2-4, the words of the young woman, reads:
\n2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth\u2014
\nfor your love is more delightful than wine.
\n3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
\nyour name is like perfume poured out.
\nNo wonder the maidens love you!
\n4 Take me away with you\u2014let us hurry!
\nLet the king bring me into his chambers.
\nWe rejoice and delight in you;
\nwe will praise your love more than wine.
\nHow right they are to adore you!<\/em>
\nAlmost like Genesis 1:1, the Song bursts into creative energy and action. The woman desires her young lover — almost as if she is thinking about him (even though he’s near her). A woman’s desire for the kisses — and her comparison of those kisses to the delight of wine because both wine and love intoxicate — her delight in the fragrance of his perfumes and even more in his very name elevate her into a state of realizing what she’s got in her lover. “No wonder the maidens love you!”
\nWith all this attraction to the young man, she urges him to take her away — let us hold hands and run off — or let him pull me as only a lover can pull his lover. “Let the king,” she says, “bring me into his chambers.” We will enjoy one another so much, she says, that we will end up counting kisses as more delightful than (good) wine.
\nAll of us, she says, adore you (her royal lover) and there are good reasons to adore him.
\nLove sees the grandeur, the beauty, the privilege, and the pleasure of the other. “Tell him” some current love song exhorts its listeners. She does. It’s a good thing to exult in the one you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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