Hey friends, Emma here. I've been out sick over the last few days, so good friends of the podcast, Nathan Wagnon and Hannah Stobbs jumped in. That said, throughout the next few days, you'll get to hear snippets of their conversations and I'll add some of my own commentaries, so the episodes may be a tiny bit longer. As we continue our study of Song of Solomon, I wanted to give you a heads up that the content is, in nature, very adult.

That said, if you're listening with children or minors around or nearby, we'd recommend you listen by yourself first before listening with kids.

All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never too late to start, and we're in this

together. This is the Join the Journey podcast. Thanks for joining. Before we cut to Nathan and

Hannah's conversation, here are three reminders. Number one, sexual desire is not innately wrong. We are designed by God as sexual beings. Number two,

in Song of Solomon, we hear from the woman, the man, and the woman's friends. And we get to see a sort of

dialogue between the three back and forth, if you will. And lastly, my third point, in chapter one,

we saw that this woman is crazy about this guy.

She is physically attracted to him, but also attracted to his character, kindness, and the

honorable way in which he treats her as a woman.

If you haven't read Chapter 1, pause this episode, go read it, or go back and listen to

the last episode.

That said, let's jump in to Hannah and Nathan's Convo. So then as we continue on, we, when you get, again, there's

this back and forth, back and forth, but when you get to verse three, or chapter three, rather,

verse five, it says, I juror you, O Daughters of Jerusalem by the gazelles or the doze of the field

that you

not stir up or awake in love until it pleases. So everything you described is saying there is this

natural buildup happening in her, natural buildup in him, even everyone around is encouraging.

Like, this is good. We all, again, the friend you have where you see, like, you guys are both in love

with each other. Like we all see it coming.

Yeah.

But then she, it seemingly out of nowhere, says let's not stir this up.

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