'Do not awaken love until the time is right'

How to deal with the unexpected twists and turns of our lives

I can’t take credit for this beautiful headline. ‘Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and the deer, not to awaken love until the time is right.’ is from the book of Song of Songs in the Bible (chapter 2, verse 7). In my New Living Translation (NLT), there is a footnote which reads, ‘Or not to awaken love until it is ready.’ Until it is rea…