14 February 2008

so this is love

Valentine's Day. To each person it means something different. I have a friend who despises Valentine's simply because nothing good has never happened for her on this day of love. Personally, I love Valentine's Day. I don't think it should be wrapped up in flowers, chocolate, & singing valentine's. The focus of the day is LOVE: love between my parents & I, love between Crys, Jarid, Craig, & I, the love I show my friends and extended family. Valentine's Day isn't just about spending special time with that "special someone", though it is a good excuse. Valentine's Day should be about showing those you love that you care. But each year Valentine's Day is soaked in chocolate, flowers, candle-lit dinners, & gifts that are often more expensive than the giver could afford. This Valentine's Day I pose to you a question:

What is love?

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; & 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 towards 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, & sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."
I John 4:7-11

So this is love: that we love one another as God loved us--when we were so unlovely.
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So This is Love
Mack David, Al Hoffman, & Jerry Livingstone
from the Cinderella soundtrack
So this is love, mmm
So this is love
So this is what makes life divine
I'm all aglow, mmm
And now I know (& now I know)
The key to all heaven is mine
My heart has wings, mmm
And I can fly
I'll touch every star in the sky
So this is the miracle
That I've been dreaming of
Mmm . . . mmm . . .
So this is love

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