Are You Ready for Love?

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Oh, my! Oh, My! Today is the day my friends. It is the day of Love. On Sunday my stunning wife and I went to a valentines dinner at our children's school. It was sure to be a good night until we got there. We got out of the car and there was the teacher's husband, rose in hand. I immediately commented, "Sure why you gotta make us all look bad." See I did not have flowers for my wife. He was probably looking pretty good in his wife's eyes that night.  Are you ready for this yearly consumer driven holiday?  We speak of this day as a day of love, but what does love really mean? Does it mean chocolates in a heart shaped box? Does it mean teddy bears? I would say not even close. Yes, romantic gestures are helpful in a relationship, but it is hardly those gestures that keep loving growing. Love is a choice, made over and over throughout time. You choose to love. Love is.... 

Read: 1 Corinthians 13,  Ephesians 5:1-14; 25-28

Pray: Pray with your loved ones today. Pray for your loved ones today. Thank the Lord for those people that you love, that he brings into your life.

Journal: Think of 5 things you can do today to show others that God loves them, whether random or focused on a specific individual. Show God's love today.