Happy Valentines Day!! I love love. A lot. Consequently, Valentines Day is my favorite holiday. True story. And, it drives me crazy when people mope around about Valentines Day, host or attend "single awareness" parties, or complain about their lonely hearts. What a selfish perspective. Valentines Day isn't about receiving some sort of significant proclamation of love, it's about sharing love FOR those around you. No worries if you belong to the mopey group though, you still have a few hours! Or, take time Sunday or Monday to get over yourself and love someone else :) Too strong? Perhaps, but I really do feel strongly about this. Life is more worthwhile when we turn outward in love rather than focusing inward. I've had too many wonderful experiences with this to believe otherwise. The video below isn't "Valentines" oriented, but it is love oriented and kind of gets at what I am trying to say:
"Where there is no love there is no understanding." -- Oscar Wilde
"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that hey shut themselves up like clams in a a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." -- Henry David Thoreau
"The ones that love us never really leave us." -- Sirius Black
"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another,God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Sonto be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also." -- 1 John 4:7-21
Daniel said, "Give that a like!" We were talking about this yesterday actually. You can always tell when you pass people on the street on February 14 if they're happy or feeling sorry for themselves. I'm not a fan of the commercialization part (although, the sales this weekend were nice...), but it IS nice to have an excuse to spend the whole day with someone you genuinely care about. We opted to skip some of our usual Saturday activities and walked down to the post office to mail our wedding invitations instead, eat some cheap chinese food for lunch, and enjoy the beautiful weather. We spent the evening watching How to Train Your Dragon 2 and cuddling with my cat haha. Skip the fancy restaurant, skip the expensive flowers, we had an awesome Valentine's Day! And you're awesome. Just so you know.
ReplyDeleteLaura, sounds like you and Daniel had a great day together! And thanks :)
ReplyDelete"Love" this... I agree. Valentine's Day is about giving love not getting love. That is evidence in the whole life and mission of Jesus Christ. Thanks for sharing!
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