Song of Solomon 5:6 · World English Bible
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.
She opened, and He was gone, and the empty doorway is its own hard teacher. The little hesitation while comfort held her had cost her the meeting.
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She opened, and He was gone, and the empty doorway is its own hard teacher. The little hesitation while comfort held her had cost her the meeting. This is the wound of the postponed yes, the heart that means to answer God but waits one moment too long.
The cure is quicker feet next time, and the search itself is already part of the finding. Her heart went out at His voice, and that pull came from somewhere. Even in the absence He is the one drawing her through the empty streets, present as the very longing that will not let her rest.
Sufism lens
What yes have you meant to give, and how long have you been meaning it?
He says we keep postponing life as if we had endless time, and the postponing is how the time goes. The hesitation costs more than the thing we were avoiding.
A teacher asks why a student waits for a better moment to begin, since every moment waited for arrives already spent. There is no later with your name on it.
Krishna says no effort on this path is ever lost and none of it goes backward. The searching counts toward the finding.
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