HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

That day is upon us!!  The "love" day!!  For us widows, this day can serve as just another reminder that we are without our husbands.  Memories of past Valentine's Day can swell up and leave us feeling lonelier than what we normally feel on a daily basis.  Some of us will plan our day with family and/or friends to help ease the pain.  The lucky few of us might get to go out with other widows or plan a dinner at one of their homes.  No matter what you do, please do something that will lift your spirits and help bring a smile to your beautiful faces.

One good aspect of this year's Valentine's Day is that it falls on a Sunday.  For a lot of us, this day is our day to worship and give back to our Amazing God.  What better date to have on Valentine's Day than our Heavenly Father, our Great Redeemer!!!  You can go to a place that is full of love and acceptance.  Nothing can help a soul heal more than praising a God of LOVE!! 

I am going to share some Bible verses that deal with love.  God is love and He demonstrated His unconditional and undying love by sending His One and Only Son to die on the cross for us.  Here are a few:

John  3:16 NIV  "For God so LOVED the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."

1 John 4:19 NIV  "We LOVE because He first LOVED us."

1 Peter 4:18  NIV  "Above all, LOVE each other deeply, because LOVE covers over a multitude of sins."

1 Corinthians 13:4 NIV  "LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."

Romans 5:18 NIV " But God demonstrates His own LOVE for us in this:  While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

John 15:13 NIV  "Greater LOVE has no one than this; to lay down one's life for one's friends"

The Bible is LOVE.  It is God's love letter to us, His children.  If you do not have a routine of reading your Bible everyday and mediate on it's words, I encourage you to start a routine on Valentine's Day.  Love pours out of every page.

Maybe you want to start a tradition to celebrate your love for your husband.  Emily and I started taking a balloon out to Kirk's gravesite every year.  Last year I seen a suggestion of taking conversation heart candies and sprinkling them over the gravesite.  The cool part is that where we live, it snows quite frequently during February.  The candies will melt into the snow and make it colorful.  Emily and I continued that tradition today, even in 18 degree weather.  It's a tradition that we have come to cherish and look forward to every year.  If you haven't started your own, will you think about starting one this year?

As I was getting our candy hearts ready, this heart was the first one that jumped out of the bag.  I turned it over and it said, Miss You.  How weird is that?  And how perfect!!  We miss him very much every day!!

Lord, I pray that you be with everyone that is lonely on this Valentine's Day and ever day.  Lord I pray that You fill them up with Your love and that the sting of loneliness softens and dulls as days go by.  Lord You are the only One that can heal our hearts and help us to move forward.  Thank you Lord for loving us more than we can fathom.  In Your Precious Name I pray..Amen!!