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Happy Valentine's Day
6:23 PM, Feb. 14, 2008
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Valentine's Day......flowers, dinner out, cards, romance :-)
Or reality - a walk in the cold to get some milk because we ran out! Cooking some shake and bake chicken and making both a pie and a cake, because the men in my life both like different desserts LOL
But the day has been a good day for reflecting back on what is really important. The fact that I have enough money to go get the milk, the fact that I have a son and husband to cook for.....those are the things that make the day good.
Not the cards, or the flowers(which I have to buy for myself because my husband never remembers), not dinner out(especially when you can't have chocolate cheesecake for dessert since your son is allergic to it ) and the romance - well, it is still there, but perhaps a bit differently than it was 17 years ago when I made our first Valentine's meal together.
I work with teen moms, and many of them were lamenting that they won't have a "special" day today because they don't have a man in their lives. The fact that they have some lovely, healthy children, food in their stomachs and a roof over their heads doesn't seem to really cut it, especially when compared to all the "hallmark" moments they see on tv or in the ads. I wish that each of them would come to know the real love behind this day....God's love that was so extravagently poured out onto us through Jesus. But unfortunately to most of them, His name is just part of a cuss word in their vocablulary.
So I guess that it is up to me to show that love in my actions. I pray that I make a difference in their lives.
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