Here we are. The day after after V-day.
Maybe you painted the bedroom for your sweetie. Maybe your sweetie got you fabulous cigars. Perhaps both of you forgot that you have a four year old that also wants a Valentine, so you both had to run to the present closet to find him a great gift. Not that this actually happened in our house. This is just hypothetical.
Really.
I mean it.
Back to my point.
What do you do now?
Don’t make Valentines day a ‘once a year’ thing.
Love should be a lifestyle — an atmosphere that we create in our relationship.
Some say that Valentine’s Day is the least romantic day of the year because so many of us do predictable things. Maybe that’s why – because we haven’t created an atmosphere of love in our relationships…then we expect love to just reappear because of a cheesy card and flowers.
Love doesn’t magically reappear because of one gift given or one day of celebration. It has to be something that you constantly nurture and grow in your relationship.
It has to do these things:
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
-A section of 1 Corinthians 13 from the Message Bible
And we have to do them often.
Love takes time, effort and work.
Let’s take a couple minutes and think about love. With the Beatles.
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Thanks for the reminder that love is so much more than red hearts and chocolates. And I rather like the way the Message puts 1 Cor 13, though I must admit it's a pretty tall order!
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