Dear listeners, we have a treat today. We have Sharon Jeans with us and she is going to be talking a bit about her book Lovestruck,

discovering God's design for romance, marriage and sexual intimacy from the song of Solomon.

So this was an amazing interview because we obviously Sharon has written 24 books. Well, not obviously just 24 books.

But because of that, she's obviously very wise. And now she's taken the song of Solomon and literally we're going through it kind of by chapter by chapter and seeing what a beautiful image it is for romance marriage, sexual intimacy.

Maybe hovered most around the topic of sexual intimacy. Yeah, namely we talked about intentionality. We talked about dealing with shame.

Yeah, she really brought to life. I think that that chapter, that book of the Bible, right? And she in her book she helps us, you know, recognize outside factors that might be causing like her feelings and how do we, how do we identify those little foxes and pesky fears as she calls them in our marriage.

And what does that look like and how does how does the Bible speak to those it was very illuminating for for us, which is.

Yeah, we spend a lot of time about reading the Bible about sex and intimacy and God's purposes for it, but it was just it was so refreshing the truth that she brought from God's word to our own heart.

So we pray that it blesses you as well. So without further ado, we have Sharon Jeans.

Who's Sharon? Thank you so much for joining us. It's great to have you. How are you? Great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for taking the time out now.

I think some of our listeners may be familiar with you with your ministry with your work as an author and the other professional capacities in which you've worked.

But can you give us just for the benefit of those maybe who don't know as much where give us a little bit kind of your of your backstory and where are you today and how did you get there?

Well, I was with Proverbs 31 ministries in the very beginning, helping waste the turquoise get that started. I was actually president for three years, while she.

After her third child, she needed a little bit of time there.

And then I felt like my job there to in the I guess leadership capacity. I had done what I had been called to do and I was writing more actually this love struck as my 24th book.

Oh, goodness. Well done.

Just started working on more of my own things and I'd work with two weathergates also on a ministry called Girlfriends and God.

And we have devotions also that daily devotions about 500,000 people a day to get those.

And and I'm back at Proverbs two went back to Proverbs four years ago and right for their.

The devotions, the encouragement for today and actually that's how this book came about. I know that one thing you were going to ask me, but that's there's an app that Proverbs 31 has.

And they're going through the Bible and they got to the song Asylum and and I had written several books on marriage and one was called Praying for your husband from head to toe that they had used a lot and another one that had a sexual sexual intimacy and it said they're like, let's get sheer and write this part.

When they got the song asylum and I think everybody had called me that I jumped right in and I loved you. I've loved writing that part of the Bible study so much that I just kept going. I mean for for months, I just kept going in it because the devotions for the app are very short.

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