Father Snort

Brad Sullivan Proper 17, Year B August 30, 2015 Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX Song of Solomon 2:8-13 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 “Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.” We got to hear from the Song of Solomon today, a series of poems and writings of passionate, unabashed love, the kind of love experienced between a newly married couple on their honeymoon and a long-married couple for whom that passion and unabashed love remains. Interestingly, God is nowhere mentioned in the entire book of Song of Solomon. Many in the church have tried to allegorize Song of Solomon to make it about Jesus’ love for the church, and that’s a valid interpretation, God’s passionate love for humanity. If we stop there, however, and don’t allow this book also to be about what it truly is, a writing about passionate love between people, we’d be missing out on some of the beauty of this writing and t