Father Dave’s Sex Talk
Father Dave’s Sex Talk
a sermon on the Song of Songs
OK guys. It’s time for Father Dave’s sex talk! It comes once every three years, when the passage from the Song of Songs appears in the lectionary.
When you were in school, you used to get this talk every year. If you were in a Christian Youth Group, you probably got this talk every week! Most of us here are now
significantly older though, and once every three years seems about right.
Either way, let me begin with my favourite love poem:
I wonder by my troth what thou and I did till we loved?
Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures childishly,
Or snorted we in the seven sleepers den?
Twas so, but this all pleasures fancy be.
If ever any beauty I did see, which I desired and got,
Twas but a dream of thee!
Yes, it’s John Donne (in The Good Morrow), eulogising about the joys of waking up alongside your lover. Now let me now read you my favourite Biblical love poem:
The voice of my beloved!
Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice
My beloved speaks and says to me:
“Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
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