Friday, January 31, 2014

Need Valentine's Day be painful?


  I will speak for myself and say that after being a single guy my entire life, Valentine's Day has long been a painful day.  Most people even half my age have a girlfriend or are married, yet I have never been married and I remain single.  It is only rougher at my age since the dating pool is small.  What I need is a company to come out with a Valentine's box of chocolate which states, "I am begging you to be my Valentine, and I will kiss your feet if you say yes."
   Yet I close by adding I can assure you what I have had on Valentine's Day for 24 years: I have had true love from God.  It is not romantic.  It does not turn many people's heads.  Yet for years I have ended my Valentine's Day knowing that Jesus loves me so much that He physically and spiritually died as the substitutionary atonement for me, and for anyone.  I am grateful to Jesus.
   You could say a prayer for me as I still have the dream to one day be married.
   And please know that Jesus loves you!
love, Hunter