You've must've fallen from the sky.

Yet another friend of mine is now engaged. Attending the school notoriously known for "ring by spring" this should not be a foreign concept to me, but it shocks me every time. Maybe I am just way to immature or selfish at this point in my life to be thinking about sharing my life with another person, or God just hasn't finished being the only man in my life yet, but whenever I hear of a new couple on the marriage path, it floors me.

I have been reading a bit through good ol' song of solomon lately. Not from the romantic side, but from God speaking to me as his beloved and me attempting to recieve that level of intimate love with Him. Anyways, today when I read this it was a huge source of peace for me. It was as if God was saying, "Rachel...calm the heck down. You are not even 2o, you are young, you are busy growing up and figuring out your life, please don't try to figure out the man thing, I've got that covered, it'll happen when it happens and it will blow your mind." What a load off. Not to say that I always think about this, quite the opposite, but its always encouraging when the Big Guy give me a little tap on the shoulder and a whisper in the ear that everything will be perfect, in due time. Take a gander at the passage that chilled me out...

Song of Solomon 3:1-5

¹ All night long on my bed
I looked for the one my heart loves;
I looked for him but did not find him.

² I will get up now and go about the city,
through its streets and squares;
I will search for the one my heart loves.
So I looked for him but did not find him.

³ The watchmen found me
as they made their rounds in the city.
"Have you seen the one my heart loves?"

⁴ Scarcely had I passed them
when I found the one my heart loves.
I held him and would not let him go
till I had brought him to my mother's house,
to the room of the one who conceived me.

⁵ Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.