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We're in Song of Songs, an Old Testament Book of the Bible, Chapter 6,

and this week's topic is how to heal a broken

relationship and so if if you're married this applies to you but if you're breathing

it also applies to you how we've all got relationships and at some point those relationships get strained they

get broken they get burden is there any hope for them there is and so we'll apply it

to date a marriage but it really applies to every marriage.

So here's the situation that we're going to address in Song of Songs, Chapter 6.

There's this couple, they were getting along, everything was going great, and then one day they kind of got on each other's nerves and

she felt a little rejected and dejected we looked at this last week he stayed too

late at work she was home let's just fill in some of the blanks with her own imagination.

She had dinner on the table. Where's my husband? He didn't tell me he was going to be late.

I don't know what's going on. And then all of a sudden it's getting toward bedtime and he's still not home.

He's still late at work.

So she gets a little frustrated.

So she goes to bed without him and locks the door to punish him.

I know you've never done this ladies, if you can believe it that's what she

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