If you have a copy of the scriptures, Song of Solomon chapter 7 is where we're going to be for the second to last message in this series.

That means we're going to land this plane next year, next week rather.

We're going to take a long time in chapter 8.

One of my favorite stories that highlights how things can go awry in relationships is the story of

a woman who was headed out for work.

Big meeting had specifically picked out a special dress she was going to wear for this day at work,

had had it dry clean for the occasion, and she needed help as sometimes wives do you,

getting the zipper up. So she went to her sometimes wives do you getting the the zipper up so

she went to her husband on the way out the door with her coffee already in the tumbler whole day in

front of her and she said could you please zip up my dress and the husband grabbed the zipper as

sometimes husbands do and sort of went up a little bit but then back down and up a little bit and bit, and then back down. She said, quit it. I'm late. Quit it. He was kind of taking it as a moment to be flirtatious a little bit. Zipper up, zipper down, zipper up. She said, stop it. She was not in any kind of mood, had no kind of time for this behavior. And so she went to say, stop it, quit. But as she did,

he held on to the zipper and the dress tour. She was not impressed. She was not pleased. And

she let him know it. And she had to rush off to find something else to wear and didn't even say

goodbye as she left. She was steaming mad. How insensitive, how thoughtless, how careless of him.

And so she went to her work in her second best choice for outfits. And when she came home,

her husband was under the truck working. All she could see was his leg sticking out from the

truck working. And still not over this.

When she saw his zipper, she thought, too can play at this game. And so she went up and without a

word grabbed the zipper and zipped it up and zipped it down and zipped it up and zipped it down, and then

up and down, up and down, up and down. And thinking she had, you know, made her point quite clear,

she went into the house where she was shocked to find her husband standing in the kitchen. And she said, what are you

doing here? And he was, he was surprised. He said, I live here. What do you? She said, who's under the car?

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