Valentine's Day

So today is Valentine's Day. The day we're supposed to show the ones we love how much they mean to us. But why just today? I guess I've never really understood holidays. As a family, we don't really celebrate them. I mean sometimes we do special things, but its mainly for the kids. And of course we celebrate Christmas, but no where close to how others celebrate. Honestly, most of the time we're lucky if we remember that a holiday is coming up.



So what is it about holidays that make people go bonkers? It's a day, not really different than any other except that somewhere along the line, someone said "hey, we could make this a holiday and try and make it special to everyone". Back to my original question, why just today? Why should we only choose today to show our family and friends how much we love them? God doesn't promise us tomorrow. Why wait for one day a year to show your loved ones how much they really mean to you? If we, as Christians, treat every day as if it were our last, then we should show each other on a daily basis that we love each other. "And he said to him, ' You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' "(Matthew 22:37-39) I'm not saying its not fun to have a special day and make a bid deal out of everything. But I just don't get why, if you're showing each other your love all throughout the year, you would get upset on one day...ONE DAY, just because you didn't get a date night out, or flowers, or chocolates, or a card, or even be told Happy Valentine's Day. If you know that you are loved, then this stuff shouldn't matter (but it IS nice).

I've seen so many girls fall apart on V-Day for various reasons. Either not having a boyfriend/husband, for said bf/husband not giving them chocolates, dinner, flowers, card, etc, for said bf/husband giving them those things, but not giving them what they really wanted, or not getting jewelry, or not getting the RIGHT flowers, jewelry, or whatever. Why do girls tend to hinge their lives, their self worth, their value on a single day? We should find our love, our self worth, our value in the One who created us. "In this is love, not that we have 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 also ought to love one another." (1 John 4:10-11) So this Valentine's Day, try not to get yourself worked up over cards, gifts, flowers and things. Try and remember how much you are loved, not just by your friends and family, but by the Creator of the universe, by the One who loves like no one else can. Try to base your self worth, your value, your love and longing on God and how He loves, and reflect that love to those around you all throughout the year.











"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)




















"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love." (1 John 4:7-8)