Human love is an imperfect reflection of God’s greater love. The best of marriages form the best of friends. Keep Admiring Your Spouse Song of Solomon 7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand… Song of Solomon 7:6 How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your words are either building up or tearing down. Keep Desiring Your Spouse Song of Solomon 7:7 Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters… Song of Solomon 7:10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. Because We All Want to Be Wanted Keep Getting Away With Your Spouse Song of Solomon 7:11–13 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; 12 let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. 13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. Friends that play together stay together. John 15:13–15 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.