Happy Valentine's Day!!!! just a wee bit early! Glad it's finally here!!

To most of us, love is a feeling! A warm fuzzy feeling that we take for granted....

or....love is in the delectable delight of a yummy Red Velvet Cake that my mom used to make at Christmas!!!

or....love could be just a simple song that we used to sing to our children, while rocking them...as I used to do!!! I will admit...this was and still is... my favorite!!!  Who cannot love "You make me happy, when skies are gray....you'll never know dear..how much I love you....please don't take, my sunshine away!" There is NO TELLING how many times I have sung that song!!!! and I LOVE it!!!

or...is love in our "love notes" to that someone special?   A husband?    a child?     a friend?

or...is it in the way that we express our love to our Ultimate Lover...the lover of souls...the Bridegroom....our Heavenly Father?

or is it in the Strawberry Pie that my mom makes every year for my dad's special birthday dessert? Yes...that is a "form" of love....

just as these wonderful chocolate candies are!! ( to me at least! ) Love comes in alot of different ways....each "foil wrapped" , stored up...saved up.............just for that special someone.....

Love can be meant for alot of different people in your life....your spouse, your family, friends, co-workers....the person at the grocery store, the bank, the cleaners....anywhere you have the chance to share and give love...just do it!!! Love them unconditionally!!! and let them feel that in the end....they are yours!!    and then, you can share the fact that in Christ..... We are His!!!

and that there is no greater form of love than this......no candy hearts, no paper valentines, no chocolate and not even flowers can measure up to the love of Christ.. He is our ultimate example of Love!!!!

              Just as 1 Corinthians 13 says......

   1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,^a but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;^b 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.