Song of Solomon 5:10-16. The Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs) is a love poem. Here the bride describes her love - he is radiant, distinguished among the ten thousand; his head is finest gold; his eyes are like doves; his lips like lilies "distilling liquid myrrh"; his body is like ivory work, encrusted with the finest jewels; his speech is most sweet "and he is all together desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend."

This reads, obviously, like a woman describing her beloved, but this love song in the middle of the Bible is a love song to us from God. The woman, the bride, is us, the Church. The man, the beloved, is God, our first and true love. And as wonderfully as the bride describes her love here, God describes us in the same way - "You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride... How sweet is your love!"  

This is how God loves us - he is crazy about us, head over heels in love with us! And it is eros, the way a husband loves a wife. That is why the love of a husband and wife is the symbol for Christ and his Church. He loves us that way! It is amazing! How could a God who is the creator of all, the God over everything that is, feel that way about me, individually? I am so awful sometimes, and yet he keeps desiring my love like this!

When I really realize this, like right now, it awakens the same kind of love in my heart. That is what this poem is describing! It is almost overwhelming how much I just want to be with him. He is my beloved and my friend - my everything.