My Vineyard Is Before Me

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A single Sunday message on Song of Solomon 8:8-12 for the family, and the church, that tends to plan a young person's love without ever asking them. It reads the poem's last movement plainly, watches the brothers' council give way to the woman's own voice, and lets her line settle the matter: my own vineyard is before me. Honest about the debate over who speaks each verse, careful never to turn the text into a modern autonomy manifesto or to bless coercive protection, with clear cautions for singles, the widowed, and survivors. Includes manuscript, outline, discussion questions, and cover graphic.