To me Valentines day is a greeting card holiday. A day for florist, Hallmark, and chocolate companies to make their annual revenue's all in one day. I've always wondered why we as humans feel the need to pick one day of the year to lavish the people we love with the same thing every other person in the world is getting. I think that takes the specialness (yes I created that wored :) ) out of it. I want someone to give me flowers on a day that I don't expect it. I want to be treated special on a day out of the blue not when everyone else is somewhat doing it because everyone else is.
I heard it said so well on the radio that though you may be "Single" your really not becuase as a christian your caught up in such a larger romance with God and his story and your such a big part of his plan. I couldn't agree more and couldn't think of someone I would rather be more in love with than God at this point in my life. He's gotten me thru some of the toughest moments in my life over the last year and still continues to. His blessings continue to rain down on me and everyday I continue to see how his plan is unfolding in my life.
"I kissed Dating Goodbye" and "When God Writes Your Love Story" are two books I would recommend anyone who is single, dating, or working with teens to read. The book didn't talk about not dating or falling in love. It put love in a better context, a better way of approaching it with all the craziness about love in movies, TV etc. you'd tend to get really lost on what it is really. Joshua Harris shared that he gave up dating. He came to believe that “the lifestyle of short-term relationships was a detour from serving God as a single”. Whaaat?!? I didn't stop dating because I wanted to use my time to serve, I stopped because I just didn't want to get into a rebound relationship. But Joshua Harris stopped dating because he started to question how his faith affected his love life. “The main point of `I Kissed Dating Goodbye' was “If you're not ready for marriage, wait on romance.”” The book further explained that there's more to your faith and your love life than merely not having sex or dating only Christians. It answers the question, “So how would you know if the time is right and whether he or she is the one?” Both books are love stories written by the grace of God. In the kind of world we have right now it makes you think “How do I actually find someone who has the same values or the right values? How do I find somebody who's going to love me till death do us part?
I can't wait to see what love story God has written out for me. I can tell you one thing for sure, it will be so much bigger than anything you'll see on a movie screen, Lifetime move, or novel!
Jordan
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