Love and Litter

One way of reading the Song of Songs is to see Solomon as a sad contrast to the simple monogamy of the young shepherd and shepherdess at the heart of the poem. In this contrast we find surprising strengths of marital intimacy, but without idealizing the many non-sexual "lanes" on which love travels for all people, whether single, married, divorced or widowed. Ultimately, Jesus is our Better King who loves us with deep wells of grace and equips us with fresh draughts of transforming power to love others well.