Valentine’s Day is not just for lovers. It is for love, period. Every one of us has at least one person we love. Most of us have have as many as five people that are not mere acquaintances, or even close friends, but something more. I’m talking about those few people we can count on one hand who we love as God loves us. Those few that our love for them does not depend on how they act toward us, how they treat us, or whether or not they even respect us. Our love for these certain few just is and always will be. It doesn’t depend on anything they do or not do. It doesn’t even matter whether or not they make any effort to return our love. A few years ago bracelets with WWJD were all the rage. What would Jesus do? Jesus would love us like this. God loves us like this, without asking for us to do anything in return. We don’t have to go to church or do good works. There are no rules or requirements or even any way to earn God’s love. It’s just there. We do what Jesus would do and we live them like this.
Most of us have a few people we love like that. A kind of love that connects two people with a thin silver thread that absolutely cannot be broken, no matter what. A thread that both people hang onto through the hurricanes. A thread that leads people back to each other in spite of all the world does to separate them. A thread that they both hang onto in, under, and through it all. A thread that assures them they’ll both still be there after the storms have passed.
Below I’m sharing a favorite picture that I have shared in past blogs because it says it all. The fishhooks signify this kind of love. When a fishhook pierces the flesh of the fish the spikes prevent it from coming back out, no matter what. This is the kind of love we are meant to celebrate today. Love for a few people that has pierced the flesh of our hearts and due to the spikes, cannot be removed, no matter what because “Love never fails”.
My heart goes out to one girl today that had that kind of love for someone. Bobbi Christina had that kind of love for her mother. A piece of my heart breaks off for this young girl who now has to learn to live without the mother that meant everything to her. I know. I know because I have a handful of people that I love like this. People that I’ll love no matter what they do or do not do to me.
I believe this is the kind of love Valentine’s Day is meant to celebrate. Look to those you love like this today, make sure they know it, and have a very happy Valentine’s Day.
And so, as another day goes by, figuring out love is a life-long process, and celebrating it should be too, and….I have written.
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