Show Notes
A five-minute Christian meditation and lectio divina practice on Song of Songs 2:4, with Derek Walcott's poem "Love After Love". Day 85 of The Universal Christ series.
Scripture Song of Songs 2:4 (NIV) Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.
Refrain I welcome the stranger who is myself.
Quote Derek Walcott, from Love After Love "The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Sit. Feast on your life." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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