Do Not Awaken My Love
The Bridegroom of The Song of Songs protectively and tenderly holds his sleeping beloved. His left arm holds her head and his right arm embraces her. He whispers to her friends, “I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the…
Christ’s Love is My Analgesic
“My Beloved is a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts.” The Bridegroom, Song of Songs 1:13 The Cross of my Bridegroom is the sachet of myrrh lying within my heart. I am reminded of this sachet of myrrh every time…
Healing After Trauma: Awakening to God’s Call
Talitha cumi … Let Him kiss me I feel like I’ve been asleep for a long time. I’ve been entombed, like a fairy-tale princess; enclosed in a glass casket, cut off from the rest of the word, secluded in a…
It was Always Him
If you had told me back in 2018 that one day I would fall in love again and even marry again, I would have laughed in your face and said you were crazy. After a 27 year marriage that ended…
The Symphony that Silences
I have heard my Lord calling to me in the night, His voice tender and sweet. The voice of my Beloved is music, healing balm, to my broken heart. And my soul cannot help but to sing a song of…
Intercessors with Jesus
In this month of the Sacred Heart, let us understand more deeply the holy invitation we have to join Jesus’ own heart of intercession, which never stops beating our needs to the Father in the tender power of the Holy Spirit.
The Total and Fruitful Love of Mary the Bride
Pope John Paul II used 4 words to describe how men and women are called to respond with the gift of themselves to the love of Christ as spiritual brides: free, total, faithful, and fruitful. This is the language of…
A Song for the Presentation of the Newborn King
Laura reflects on the incarnational beauty that He, our Lord and our God, has “made himself a throne”.
The Beautiful Truth
Dear Roses, Not surprisingly, the following quote from St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, (Edith Stein), took my thoughts to The Song of Songs. “If the love of Christ lives in us, then we do as He did and seek…
The Fragrant Nard of Your Life
“‘My nard’, says the Bride. She might as well say: my life! For this is in fact her whole being, the very essence of her being that is poured out at the feet of the King. To her King, who…
The Bride Returns to Her True Home
How the Heart of God swells with love as He gazes upon His maid of Shulam, His Daughter of Peace and His beloved Spouse.
The Merciful Love of Jesus
I was inspired to write a prayer acknowledging my infidelities to my Bridegroom and celebrating His merciful Love and forgiveness. The Chaplet of the Bridegroom’s Merciful Love is a duet sung by the hearts of the bride and the Bridegroom.