Ministries
I was hoping to get a Valentine card from the love of my life. My little cardboard box was decorated and left on my desk in school in hopes that special someone slipped a Valentine card into the slot while I was not looking. But, alas, it was not to be. I guess I wasn’t popular enough for the popular girl. In fact, I didn’t get many cards.
But I was happy I got the cards I did because the cards had suckers or other candies attached to them. Love or sweets? Not both but one will do.
I liked Valentine’s Day in Bernardo. There were only about seven or eight of us in a class if I remember right. That way I got cards from everyone! It is kinda like today where the teacher makes sure that everyone gets cards from everyone - popular or not. That is like getting a participation trophy. The other way at least you know where you stood.
My Valentine box gave way to my true Valentine as I grew older. The cards may have dwindled to one but now it is love and sweet. I did a lot for my Valentine. Dinner and dance. Well, dinner at the Columbus Dairy Bar and dancing at Swiss Alps outside of Schulenburg. It was still romantic in my eyes.
After marriage, yes, she still married me, Blackhawk or Old San Francisco Steakhouse in Houston was the order of the courting routine. Oh, and Red Lobster.
Then came more Valentines when we had our sons. More Valentine cards and Valentine boxes and now they have their own Valentines with little cards. Let them make those darn Valentine boxes.
Dianne and I spent many an hour making Valentine boxes that our kids would not be embarrased to take to school.
For a while, Dianne would buy toys and gifts of such to give for Valentine’s Day. I mean she made it like Christmas comes three times a year. I did say three times because, beside Christmas and Valentine’s, she would go whole hog on the gifts for Easter.
Easter was another whole ball of wax. However, I agree that Easter should be more like Christmas than, say, Thanksgiving.
Have you seen some of the boxes kids have their parents make? It takes a whole lotta love to devote that much time to those boxes.
Valentine’s Day is celebrating love for the one you love. And buying flowers from the florist.
Valentine’s Day should be celebrated every day with the one you love.
Just like Jesus loves us each and every day. He didn’t make us cards or boxes. But he gave us something just as loving and sweet when He laid down His life for us. Hmm, love and sweets. That’s a win!
John 4:9-10, “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through hi. 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.”
