Love is…Valentine's Day - every day! Do yourself a favor, be lovable.

(I Corinthians 13) 

Proverbs 19:22 says, "What a man desires is unfailing love..." and I suspect it is as true today as it was about 2,900 years ago when this passage was written.

This shouldn't be understood as gender specific in its intent. This is true for male and female: we want unfailing love. What we fail to do is give unfailing love. This is another one of those examples of that irritating spiritual and physical science maxim - "you reap what you sow." 

Since we are so good at failing in this regard, and since we are so needy in our ego-centricity, and since the most favored way of bolstering ego is having someone love us...we gravitate toward excess in observing this singular day of atonement for the transgressions of our relationships with the one whom we have pledged our undying love.

I.e. - "I do too love you...I bought you this card and this candy and this frilly thing."

Well, love is as love does. Let's try another go at I Corinthians Chapter 13.

Don't just say you know what it says...get a Living Bible and read it again.

Now, be that way and every day will be Valentine's Day!

"We lead by example," "we reap what we sow," "the whole world loves a lover..." need I go on? Perhaps that's enough encouragement for now.

Get out there and start by being nice to that one before you get to your day of atonement (February 14th)!

By-the-way, St. Valentine was martyred by Claudius II , (In full Marcus Aurelius Claudius Gothicus) AD 214–270. Emperor of Rome (268–270) who defeated the Goths in 269. St. Valentine was a priest and a physician from Turin, Italy. He had nothing to do with giving cards and candy...just thought you would want to know.