I have been reading through the book of Song of Songs and a couple of scriptures that jumped out at me as I read it this time was all vineyards. In Song of Songs it reads 1:6 "My mother's sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect." So often we can be looking after other people's vineyards, other peoples fields, and our own can come into a state of neglect, often without even realising it. In the scripture above it writes they 'made me take care of', but often it's not other people making it, rather we sometimes can't say no, or perhaps we have lost sight of what is important, or we have just got busy and we haven't even noticed. I know as a mother we often look after our children's welfare before our own. In our job we can look after the welfare of the business we are working for, or if we are the boss, the employees in our care. In marriage we become familiar with one another that ...