I Hate Valentine's Day... Kinda

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, it's been a weird week. I went home on Friday night for a Pacer's game with my friend, came back Saturday morning, and I've been busy or sleeping ever since. As many of you know, yesterday was Valentine's Day. I was dreading it a little bit, seeing as I didn't have a valentine or sweetheart, but I should have been thinking about things other than myself. Not only did I make myself miserable on Valentine's Day (for no reason), but I neglected to make others happy and joyful on Valentine's Day.

This is how the day SHOULD have gone- I should've woken up, read my Bible, thanked God for the WONDERFUL day, and gone to spread the joy of the Gospel to everyone. Did I do this? No, of course I didn't, because I tend to be the "bitter single girl" on Valentine's Day. I'll admit it, too, and I think that's about halfway there to becoming the "happy single girl" on Valentine's Day. I'm working on it, I promise.

God's blessed me a LOT more than He should have. This is the verse that I would choose for Valentine's Day- John 3:16- "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." On this day that celebrates love, we should remember first God's love. God's love is the truest, strongest, purest love that any of us will know. You know how I know that? Because I know we're all human. Love is a choice, and sometimes we choose to be hateful, spiteful, or just indifferent to those around us. What we really need to be doing is trying to love others like Jesus did- unconditionally. We need to show the lonely, the sad and the weak a love that's unchanging. My challenge (which is always first to myself, then to others) is to go on ahead and SHOW THAT LOVE! Other people need to know about Jesus, they need to know that He cares for them, even when you can't. We can't all like everyone, but we need to be loving. <3