Please, please read this short article: Getting rid of the little foxes in your marriage
I've really only read Song of Solomon when I have to (oh, the awkwardness!), but the verse she quotes above makes me realize I've missed out. I have never noticed that verse before, and wow, is it true. Ridiculously true.
Excerpt from the above article:
...Not all of us will encounter the giants in our marriages, but all of us
will encounter the little foxes. This is because while not many of us
are adulterers or murderers or wife beaters, all of us are prone to bad
habits and mild addictions and assorted baggage we carried into wedlock
with us.
...The thing about little foxes is that they might even seem cute or
harmless or funny, and sometimes they are dormant for long stretches of
time...You may even think they are simply the inevitable “human condition” and
not worth dealing with because you will never be perfect before heaven.
...[But] God wants us to work on eradicating the little foxes—that temper
problem, that tendency to walk out of the room when things are
unpleasant, that habit of getting the last word in an argument, or of
excessive TV watching that robs time from your spouse, or that obsession
with cleaning, or shopping, or polishing your car, or Facebook.
Let us get rid of the little foxes. And here is the promise: Your vineyard will blossom.
- Andree Seu Peterson
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