A Sudden Encounter When God Finds You

7 days

A Catholic Bible study: A Sudden Encounter When God Finds You.

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What the plan covers

  1. Day 16 min

    When the Night Begins — The Ache of Absence

    The scene has shifted. In the earlier chapters, the Bride was held, feasted, called beautiful, and embraced. Now she is

  2. Day 26 min

    Rising in the Dark — The Pursuit Begins

    Something shifts in the Bride between verse one and verse two. In verse one, she is lying on her bed in the ache of abse

  3. Day 36 min

    Wandering in the Dark — When Others Cannot Help

    The Bride is not wandering alone in the abstract. She is in the city — the place of community, of organized religious li

  4. Day 46 min

    A Sudden Encounter — When God Finds You

    "Scarcely had I passed them." The language is almost breathless. Almost past the last human waypoint, almost beyond the

  5. Day 56 min

    Bringing Him Into Every Room — Integration of Divine Love

    The Bride does not simply enjoy the encounter and go home. She brings the Beloved with her — into the most intimate geog

  6. Day 66 min

    The Sacredness of Rest — Stillness After the Search

    The searching is over. The encounter has come. And now the Song calls for something unexpected: stillness. After all the

  7. Day 76 min

    Living with Holy Mystery — Trust in What We Cannot Map

    The week closes not with resolution but with mystery — and deliberately so. The Song does not explain the night. It does